Four middle-aged people were reminiscing about their individual journeys through life. Two of them were college grads, and the other two were business people. The first was heard to say, 'When I happened upon that uranium deposit, that’s what started me off to a wealthy future.' The second replied, 'No such luck for me. I never recovered financially from that skunk-farm fiasco I inherited from my relative.' The third person said, 'If I hadn’t taken revenge on my opponent and got all that money from him, I would probably have ended up in the poorhouse.' Lastly, the fourth person responded, 'Well, you two tycoons can celebrate your riches obtained in life, but that shrunken head collection I invested my money in, as well as my wasting my money on $5,000 toupees, raccoon coats, and buying a R -Riddles

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The four people had just finished playing the board game, LIFE, and were discussing some of the good and bad things they had encountered while playing.

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