I was well into my teens before I realized that Pearl Harbor wasn't in California.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- i used to believe the sunset was better in California cause it was closer to the sun— hazel
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- When I was a kid, I thought the musical Mamma Mia did songs from the A*Teens (the teenage version of Abba)Anon
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO