How did other people influence the way you played Barbies?

"My best friend Carolyn and I would set up these elaborate story lines that would last months. We would build these stories and worlds together, but our characters always stayed the same. The same dolls would have the same names and the same personalities and the same significant others. She was a lot older than I was, so I usually followed her lead in story ideas or projects, like building cardboard cities for them."


-Marcie, 21, Caucasian, heterosexual female from the United States