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angel is a 2020 penny and this is her dairy learn with her as every month goes by
in 2020 and learn her crazy experience as a 2020 penny.

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The life of Parker

Here’s your cash Mrs. Cassidy.   Have a wonderful new year! Only one penny?  I don’t care about one penny.  You know what, I’ll just give this to someone. You’re probably wondering who that poor poor penny is. That’s me, Parker Penny. My life started so long ago, about a day ago.  I’m still as shiny as untouched copper and like a chunk of bronze.  I was in the same room for what felt like decades but just maybe milliseconds just until March 28, 2020 someone with gloves on took me outside and ran like the flash. We arrived at this place that I’ve never seen before, obviously I’ve never seen it.  “Where’s the penny machine?”  I fell out their glove and rolled to this weird machine. “Hey look a penny.” Then suddenly I was in the air and into the machine and it sure was creepy. All of a sudden I was spinning and I felt like I was stretching. Is this the penny machine? What does the penny machine do? Then I flung out and felt like head and tail to a giant sailboat. I had changed to something new...

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Life of a Penny

Hi there, my name is Pendy, and today was the BEST day of my life! Want to know why? I got to meet my family! But it wasn't exactly how I imagined it to turn out. I will tell you the story. One calm morning Billy was feeling a big urge for candy but he didn't just give 1 of my family members, HE GAVE THEM ALL, for the past few months after that I was very lonely and sad without them here. But one morning when I was by myself he woke up, picked me up and shoved me in his pocket. I didn’t know what was going on so I didn’t think much of it. But then I heard a car. I thought he was bringing me to drop his sister off at school but he took me to the candy store! He walked in and gave me to a man at the cash register for a delicious chocolate bar. My mouth was watering. I could smell the chocolate and I was very jealous but the man tucked me in the cash register where I found myself with other coins who looked like me, I asked who are they were but then they started laughing. I was very confused but then I remembered they are my family! We had a good time but it didn’t last for long, a short time after someone BURST in the store yelling. We did not know what was happening so we just ignored it but then we heard loud sirens and a man started yelling again we were all very confused what had just happened. But it had been a long day and closing time so when the lights turned off we fell asleep.

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Abe the penny

plink I'm in a bucket for donations to help stop covid-19. but wait wait this is too far ahead! let's rewind a couple of months. “look a shiny penny must be my lucky day.” says a boy picking me up, his mother says in an angry voice “put that down it must be filthy who knows how many hands have touched it!”  “ok” the boy says pertaining to put me down but sneakily puts me in his pocket! should I mention my name? I think I should i'm Abe, Abe the penny. anyway where was I oh ya so i'm in a little boy's pocket. next thing i know i'm in a change jar i'm in there for a couple of weeks I meet some friends. then suddenly I feel shaking underneath me! the boy cried out “no I want to get a piece of candy!” his mother says “no we need to trade it in for dollars at the bank!” I hear a muffled voice say “thank you so much you know we are in a change shortage your donation will be appreciated” i forgot the rest (yes pennys have memories ) but somehow I ended up in a yelling womens purse

YOU ARE GOING TO FORCE ME TO WEAR A MASK! she says in an angry voice CONGRATULATIONS YOU LOST A CUSTOMER! l fell on the floor in the outrage and the stock boy picked me up and put me in the bucket! well that's my story I hope for a better year next year goodbye!

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the unfortunate life of 2020 for Alana

“Hi im Alana and Im a penny I was departed from my brothers so I don't really know them but anyways i am getting ready for the worst its new years day and its 2020” I hear some muffling sounds but thats was it until I was picked up bye a boy he sang a song that indicated that he was about to get some candy with me so i didn't do any this but when we got to the store hear a mettle looking box sad “this is fox carolina news coming to you with a sad discovery 41 year old pro NBA star Kobey Bryent and his 13 year old daughter Gianna Bryent have both died in a helicopter crash along with others we send well wishes to all the families and rest in peace this was fox carolina news signing out” after that I hear a lot of crying and some people start to whisper.but when i heard "that will be a 1.99 if you could please use exact change because its a coin shortage right now" I was flabbergasted but i kept my cool for the sake of my back side I  was put into the mans hand and I  was put in his pocket  where I spent 72 hours then suddenly I got put into a machine that side 1.09 cents for 2 gumballs and a bracelet so then that's where I am right

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“Aah here we go again another singer here for some money”. Wee into the pot I go! Wait where is she taking me this isn't a cash register its a wallet, NOO! What was that wait hello? Pop whoa this is a soft bed. But then I knew where the sound came from. Whoa a talking coin hi. Hi are you a coin too I asked? But he said no. well i’m pennie20 i said. Nice to meet you umm. Oh my name's Jacob, he said. But I'm hungry, I sadly said. Well  I don't have any food right now because of coronavirus. I was confused because I didn't know what coronavirus was. He said it was a virus that was limiting permissions. You mean you can't just do whatever you want, I asked. Umm no of course not can you? I said yes obviously. He was surprised and said wow well i hope we can be great friends and with a smile, i knew we would.

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Preston’s weird adventure

Today was AWFUL.  Humans kept complaining about something called… Covid-19. What are these things covering people’s mouths? I see these things in many different colors but mostly blue and white. The sun was shining bright on my pretty copper body today. Then I heard little footsteps, they couldn't be from humans because they sounded so LIGHT. A couple minutes later two ants started to come up to me!! Then one of the ants walked away.  What happened? Did they get in an argument? Not so long later even MORE ants started coming towards me! The ants started to lift me up.  Around  five minutes later I saw this big red hill of dust. They put me inside the building, I saw a BIG ant bigger than the others. They seemed to be feeding the big ant food. Hmm I think I have heard about these ants in someone’s conversation.. Oh! A queen ant! Ants were walking all around me; they seemed to be rushing. Wait a minute! Is it almost winter?! A big wind came in knocking some ants down but they still managed to get outside and get some supplies. They put a little bit of dust in front of the entrances and holes. TWO DAYS LATER oh boy there is snow everywhere! The ants started to lift me up then they put me in a little cozy room, well I guess this is my life now.

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Cink I hit the floor.I am a penny and my name is tom today is someday in january in 2020 I got picked up by a young boy with a mask on but his mom smacked me out of his hand .But a small basketball player died it was sad when i was found. I was saved with 49 of my brothers and sisters. I did not stay there for a long pile of toilet paper and paper towels. I saw many stores that are closed and run down. When the lady sat me down I heard about something called Covid-19 it was a virus. I am a smart penny and i have symptom of that virus but i am a penny

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Dune the penny. Today i was put into the pocket of a kid and put into a penny presser  then turned

into another penny and made back into a penny into a gumball machine

and put into a cash register then a drawer  and i could not hear anyone or anything. I see a guy talking to someone about selling the place and putting it somewhere else and making it a company.

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“Tails!” I heard a young boy say as I layed on some sort of countertop, sore from all my spinning. I stared at the countertop wondering what I was doing here. Apparently all the screaming was a good sign because one boy yelled “Yes!” yet the other just threw me. As I hit the ground with a cling I couldn’t help to think to myself why would they do such a thing.

Suddenly boom boom I was snatched from the floor and tossed into a sticky, dirty, and dark place. Others like me perched there. One after one, they disappeared, but I stayed in that dark, scary place. Then after what seemed like a lifetime I got taken out and tossed into something they called salt and vinegar. It stank really bad but they said I was just getting cleaned. After that, I got pulled out, dried off, and zipped in a little bag.

It reminded me of the time when I was just a little penny and I was just born. My mom Martha got broken and 99 other little pennies spilled out. Then we all got zipped up and packed up for about a year until we had matured a little. Now that's enough about the past now let's get back to the present. I shook around in a bag until I finally saw sunlight. Then a man they called Mr. John said “Why that's a mighty lot of toilet paper you've got there.” “Well I got the last of it here.” said Mrs. Walker. “That will be six o one.” said Mr. John. Then I was pulled out of the bag and handed to the man who placed me in a dark, dark drawer.

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My life as a 2020 penny By: Celia Rodriguez

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My life as a 2020 penny By: Celia Rodriguez

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“I can’t wait to get the VR headset once I get enough money to buy it! I got 1.50 today. So, i’ll just add it to my money.” And there is when I come in. It was New Year's Day so it’s a new year. While I was going in the house inside the boy’s hand, I felt uncomfortable. Because he had the sweatiest hand any penny could ever imagine. EWWW!!! Anyways, I fell out of his sweaty hand but he didn’t know. THANK GOODNESS! So then his sister found me and took me upstairs with her. She said “Oh my gosh! I found a penny! You’re gonna be my best friend!” When I heard her say that, I was excited! Because i’m not gonna be like other pennies who just get used in like one or two days, i’m gonna be someone’s best friend forever! Then, she said “Hmm what should I name you? Hmm, OH I KNOW! I’ll call you Peppa! Yeah, that has a nice ring to it.” And so, that's how I got my name, Peppa, and her name was Sophie. So, we’ve done some fun stuff throughout the past 2020. It’s been so long as bffs that it was one week away until New Year’s Eve. I was just remembering all the fun times Sophie and I had together. Like, we swung on the swings, we went to the fair, and we tried to have the bestest fun possible through the last week until New Year’s Eve. But, when it was New Year’s Eve, Sophie said, “THIS IS THE WORST NEW YEAR’S EVE EVER!!!!!!!!” And I knew why she was upset. It’s because her favorite celebrity died because of coronavirus, our favorite place had to close, her bff has to stay quarantined away from her, and she didn’t want me to leave her. Sophie was begging to keep me forever. Finally, her mom said yes. She was happy. So, even though it was 2021, she still had me to this day. But, when she brings me to places with her mask on, people just look at her and she’s crazy that she still has a 2020 penny. She almost cried when she saw people’s reactions. But, she was strong inside and she was always happy because i’m always here for her no matter what. And the reason that she loved me so much and why she treats me different from other pennies is because it’s her first ever penny. So that’s my story of how I became best friends forever with a little girl named Sophie. And she’s happier to have me as her bff then her other bff because we can still do fun stuff together even though it’s coronavirus all around the world. The End.

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Alice

Have you ever been a penny? “Well… I am a penny, so I’ll tell ya, NOT fun!”  One time I got locked in this weird looking drawer. I don’t know where, but it looked busy and people were scanning items like toilet paper. Soon, they said “Toilet paper shortage everyone! Toilet paper shortage!”  I say “ Wow, why?”  It was confusing. “ I hope you're not a coin like me.”  I get jiggled around a lot in people’s pockets, and sometimes I even get dropped on the ground. It’s SO weird! It makes me cry in front of people.

I once got trapped in this dark place. It had no windows and no people. “It was scary, very scary! I need to get out of here! It’s SO scary! I hope they bring me somewhere else! Noooooo, just kidding, I definitely hope NOT!” They just bring me from place to place like nothings happening!  “I’m like, what the heck!”

Then, they bring me to this place with yucky germs there. It was outside. There were people putting things in people’s noses! “Holy moly!” I hope Covid ends soon because this nonsense stuff is awful. Have you been in a nonsense situation before?

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Hi, my name is Jack. Do you know what it's like being a penny? I'll tell you my story.

I was once in a candy shop and was put in a giant pocket. He took me to a big, in fact the largest house. No, it was a mansion because it was so huge. He threw me up in the air and I was so dizzy. He spun me around and around.

Going back when I was born, the pocket actually looked like a cave. He put me in a pink house which was filled with coins. There were gray ones, lange ones, and old ones. Some looked a lot like me. Soon, the house started to fill up with coins and I was crushed with coins.

I heard someone say that they're going to a penny machine. I was wondering what they mean. A boy grabbed his piggy bank which I was in. He didn’t have enough quarters to make all the pennies including me. I’m glad I am safe and sound from the penny machine. I was dizzy because I was bouncing up and down. I was crushed with other coins and it HURTS!!!

The boy dumped out all the coins from the house. I saw a mother with 100 babies and I wanted to be one of them. Too bad, the boy saw me running away and he put me back inside the house. I mean piggy bank and I stayed there.

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                            Brian          Centipede's interesting adventure                                 Hi, I am a brand new penny, I was carved from copper metal by some human workers.  One hundred other pennies were also, all of us were put in a jar that was really cramped, so I climbed to the top and looked out!  Oops!  I fell out!  “Hey, looks like I dropped one!” said one of the workers, and he picked me and the jar up, and put us in a mail truck, I knew better than to lean out now that I had already fallen out once.  The mail truck was dark and smelled like paper.  I waited . . .and waited . . .and waited . . . Finally we came to a stop!  We were at someone’s house.  I was so excited to go somewhere without a jar!  I was brought inside, along with the other pennies.  I KNEW that something had to get interesting!  However it was NOT fun at all!  I was dropped on a wooden floor (Ow!), almost vacuumed up, and then I was picked up and put in a wallet!  The next thing that I knew I was riding in a vehicle AGAIN!  Finally found myself in a GUMBALL MACHINE!!!  It was dark, but I had no idea that it could get WORSE.  A suffering year later I heard voices saying that there would be a stop to the gumball machines, that  they were going to have to sell masks instead of toys, and that one more penny could go in. It was because of some virus, I don’t know what that is, but I knew that I would be in here for a while.      

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                            Brian          Centipede's interesting adventure                                 Hi, I am a brand new penny, I was carved from copper metal by some human workers.  One hundred other pennies were also, all of us were put in a jar that was really cramped, so I climbed to the top and looked out!  Oops!  I fell out!  “Hey, looks like I dropped one!” said one of the workers, and he picked me and the jar up, and put us in a mail truck, I knew better than to lean out now that I had already fallen out once.  The mail truck was dark and smelled like paper.  I waited . . .and waited . . .and waited . . . Finally we came to a stop!  We were at someone’s house.  I was so excited to go somewhere without a jar!  I was brought inside, along with the other pennies.  I KNEW that something had to get interesting!  However it was NOT fun at all!  I was dropped on a wooden floor (Ow!), almost vacuumed up, and then I was picked up and put in a wallet!  The next thing that I knew I was riding in a vehicle AGAIN!  Finally found myself in a GUMBALL MACHINE!!!  It was dark, but I had no idea that it could get WORSE.  A suffering year later I heard voices saying that there would be a stop to the gumball machines, that  they were going to have to sell masks instead of toys, and that one more penny could go in. It was because of some virus, I don’t know what that is, but I knew that I would be in here for a while.      

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My name is Sam. Where am I? It is so dark in here.I can't see.I see the sun now and what am I on.I am on a hand and i am in Walmart Wait don't buy that toilet paper. I am in a cash register. A penny is here who are you? I am Sam. who are you? I am will. Do you know a way out yay. We will have to wait till tonight. It night now we can get out. Okey see that hole jump through it. Where out now. Who is that wait they see me now and they put me back in so i am going to have to wait some more. Now there gone let's go and get out.

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Hi, I'm Josh the penny who goes everywhere people pay for food and use me to buy it. Then people get money back and the process goes on and on.One day this guy from china he lived in a hotel. I was in a glass cup with lots of other coins for a few days. He picked me up and left the room and went to the elevator. When he got out of the elevator he walked to the counter and said “I'm ready to leave so here is my room card” so he gave him the room card. He ran to his car. I was bumping my head and tail hurt.I was in this guys pocket for about 5 hours. Then he gets out of the car. It looked like he was running to a bank machine and he was about to put me in there then a girl came and asked “can i have that penney and the man said…….Yes.

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A Penny’s story

By Wynne Dinger

“Hey a penny!” I heard a voice say. “Is it on heads?” Said another smaller voice. “It is! That means today’s lucky!” I then found myself in a dark enclosed space for some time. I was then in a noisy, loud room. Still in the pocket. Then the girl was pinching me and said, “Hey Rosemary. Look what I found outside!” I then saw a girl with ginger hair and brown eyes. I supposed this was Rosemary. “Wow Wynne, that's good luck!” I saw this Wynne. She looked nine and had brown hair. “Hey did you hear that the other day this guy named Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash?” “No. I feel sorry for him.” I do too.

A couple hours later I was in a car and the girl was pinching me and said, “Hey Dad. Look at what i found outside this morning!” I saw a man with brown hair driving the car. “Woah. Cool.” “Can we go to sonic?” Said the small girl from this morning. “No. We went yesterday.”

One or two months later the small girl took me somewhere. I don’t know where “I’ll give you a penny and two quarters for the squishy sheep.” “I’ll take the two quarters but keep the penny. I heard there’s a shortage or something.” “Class I have an announcement. Because of the coronavirus we will do something called virtual school.”

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“Penelope’s Tour of 2020”
“Happy New Year, Mrs. Smith. Your change is $2.71.  Have a great day!”  Yep, that’s how it all started for my life in 2020.  I was given as change to some strange lady named Mrs. Smith who bought a gallon of milk and two loaves of bread.  She must have been expecting a snowstorm or something.  She tucked me tight in her jeans’ pocket and off we went.  I slept well in this strange lady’s pocket for a couple hours.  Then I found myself swirling around and around in a whole bunch of bubbles.  It was as if I was in some sort of spa.  Then I was placed into this contraption of HOT air.  I continued to spin and spin until I suddenly fell out of the pocket.  I began to bang my head and tail against a metal wall.  Ouch!  Talk about a head and booty ache!!
It wasn’t long before I heard a teenage boy say, “Finders Keepers!”  He placed me in some sort of glass dish on his dresser.  That is where I stayed for a couple of months.
Then one day, this boy who I assumed was Mrs. Smith’s son scooped me up with his giant hand and off we ran to a small candy shop.  My nose caught a whiff of chocolate, strawberries, Laffy Taffys, and more chocolate.  My tummy began to growl.  The next thing I heard was some man’s voice call out, “Johnny, your total today will be $4.73.”  At least that’s what I thought he said.  It sounded as if he had something covering his mouth.  As Johnny handed me over to the man with a muffled voice, I felt a sudden wave of panic overtake my entire body made of copper.  The man’s wrinkly hand placed me in a dark eerie drawer.  I found myself with at least twenty coins that looked somewhat like me.  Some were super old and discolored, and some were a shiny hue of brown.  I thought to myself, “Life is about to get real interesting.”
Hmmm!  I just thought life was about to get interesting, but little did I know that I would remain in that dark drawer for a long time.  As the days passed, I lost a little more light and heard the old man’s voice a little less often.
One day, not so long after, I overheard a discussion about how the business was going to have to close.  Something called the Corona Virus or Covid caused fewer customers to come in.  The city council also issued a mandate for businesses deemed as being “non-essential” to close for a while.  I don’t suppose “candy” is a necessity.
It wasn’t long after hearing all of the chatter of closing, that the old man fetched my friend and me out of the drawer and carried us to a local bank for deposit.  You would have thought I was worth a million dollars rather than one measly cent.  A voice boomed out in excitement, “Our branch manager is going to be so happy!  We’ve been running really low on coins lately!”
Within a couple of hours, I found myself with about 49 others like me wrapped up tightly like a burrito.  Here’s to hoping my next adventure will be as entertaining as the past ones have been…

“Yes, my daughter has asked for five dollars in rolled pennies to take with her to Disney.  She sure does love those penny machines!”