My mom was 40 and we were going to Chicago... she told me to "book a hotel room by the ocean." She also confessed that she thought Hawaii was up by New York. Nevermind, because until I was 18 I thought the Statue of Liberty was in Washington state.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I thought the Statue of Liberty was god.— Amy R. CA.U.S.
- I thought that God looked like the Statue of Liberty.— R*
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon
- When I was little I thought that Washington( D.C. )was in Washington state. Anon
- I used to believe that French people where green-like the Statue of Liberty!— Joey
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon