When in 1940 my sister was 12 she found the word "brothel" in a book and asked her father what it meant. he replied "a soup kitchen for poor people"
Her husband disillusioned her at the age of 20.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.Anon
- I used to believe that a brothel was where poor people used to go to get free broth.— Rob. UK
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- I used to believe that only 'poor' people had to go to the bathroom, that 'rich' people didn't.Anon
- When my sister's father went to Seattle, my sister said "Is Attle nice?" She thought Attle was a person's name— zzo38