My mom was my Girl Scout troop leader growing up. At our first meeting (way back in Brownies, when I was 6), she told us that in our Brownie troop we would get sisters. What she meant was that all the members of the troop were like sisters, but I took her literally and thought that the other members of the troop would become my blood relatives somehow. Since I was an only child and I wanted a sister at the time, I was very excited, and I kept waiting for us to magically become "sisters." It took a year and a half for me to realize that this wasn't going to happen.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to think Jane Austen was related to the Bronte sisters, maybe like their cousin or step/half sister.Anon
- I used to think Jane Austen was related to the Bronte sisters, maybe like their cousin or step/half-sister.Anon
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- I used to believe that my sisters "make believe dog" was real— me