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A childhood belief about places

In my early childhood days, of which my memory is vague, the TV show The Honeymooners was still on live, and my parents were big fans of it. That is no doubt why I'd heard of Audrey Meadows, one of its stars. But I wasn't clear whether Audrey Meadows was a person, place ot thing, or whatever. I probably heard her first name more like "Autree", like that might be a kind of tree, perhaps. Meanwhile, in those same days and ongoing to times of my slightly clearer memories, my family often visited the North Carolina mountains, where one of our frequent stops was a Blue Ridge Parkway recreation area called Crabtree Meadows. I perceived that Crabtree Meadows and Audrey Meadows must be similar entities, reinforcing my probable tendency to hear Audrey as "Autree", like it were perhaps a kind of tree. I got to wondering why on most of our mountain trips we would go to Crabtree Meadows, but we never went to Audrey Meadows, which must be some kind of similar place. It wasn't until I came home from college that I realized who Audrey Meadows was and why I'd heard of her back then, for at that time my parents were again watching The Honeymooners, then in reruns.

— Robert

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