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Jun 10, 2003

"The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected." --Victor Frankl

Since September, Emily Dubois has been preoccupied with pennies. Pennies in empty milk jugs. Pennies in water bottles. Hundreds of thousands of pennies filling her closet. Yet the Palo Alto High School junior still wants more. Emily is one-third of the way to her goal of collecting one penny for each of the 1.5 million children who some sources estimate died in the Holocaust.