My mom had scoliosis surgery as a teen and when she explained the huge scar that runs down her back I imagined her sitting upright on an exam table, the doctor opening her back like French doors, and climbing completely inside the hollow cavity to fix her spine with a wrench.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that echos were actually the sound going completely around the world and coming back to you.— kyle
- If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!— Helen, Cumbria
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I thought that the Allen wrench was named after an actor from Home Improvement, Tim Allen.— Jorge
- When I was little I used to believe that there was a man sitting inside ATM machines giving you your money.— Kazza
- as a kid [until age 7] I used to believed that the tv
reporters were literally sitting inside the tv! — nüel