I always find it interesting to see what people write on paper money.
Often, the message is cryptic. That was the case with something I noticed yesterday.
Written in black ink on a $20 bill I got at a bank drive-thru on Saturday was “MARILIN.”
No phone number or anything. Just “MARILIN.”
These days, that could actually be the correct spelling.
I assume that's a person's name. But I can only guess about why someone wrote it down on a $20 bill.
Maybe the back-story involves a great romance. Or perhaps mental illness.
Feel free to make you own guess.
Features writer Paul Turner is a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in the Features department. He writes "The Slice" column, which appears six times a week and produces general features stories for the Today section.
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