![]() “She could really appreciate a good joke – she was a prankster.”Īnd the fun-loving pair enjoyed playing dress up. It was the start of a warm bond between Mona and and her aunt, just 14 years her senior. She would tumble about on the grass with us and the dogs and just loved it.” “Norma Jean told me she was very pleased to meet me and I could tell she really was. “Mother knew her right away,” recalls Mona. Her mum Berniece, then 24, was herself only meeting her sister for the first time – they had been raised separately by foster parents because their mother Gladys suffered from mental illness. “ I remember she smelled good and gave me lots of hugs when we went to the station in Detroit to meet her.” ![]() ![]() “I was just five when we met,” says Mona, who now lives in North Carolina in the US. Icon: But Mona knew a different side of Marilynīut her earliest recollections of the fragile, bubbly Norma Jean are the ones she cherishes most. ![]()
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