Mary Parfitt (left) was my best friend for years. You can see just how glad I was to be with her. (Also, most likely, my dad (the photographer) had just said something that made me laugh.)
Just around this time in our lives, we started to play a Monopoly game that lasted 2 years, with about 200 new rules we made up ourselves. We both got so rich in this game that we had to create our own $1000 bills, later $10,000 bills. I made mine small so that I could carry them inside of a gold pinky ring that I’m not wearing in this photo.
How did we play for so long without going bankrupt? We created a third and fourth player, whose “bank” was… the bank. These silly players kept landing on both of our properties and getting hit for enormous rents. We beefed up our rents by putting TV antennas on all our hotels–which were made of wood then; we used bright red thumbtacks for TV antennas.
Who won? I don’t remember. I hope it was Mary.