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When I was a young child I used to believe that when you ran for presidency, the person that could run the furthest without stopping became president.
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Until I was about ten years old, I always believed that everyone had an "Ami" that they went to--like Bugs Bunny--he was always headed to "MY AMI".
When I was 9 we moved from Utah to California. I truly thought we were moving to a foreign country. Our first weekend there we went to San Francisco and saw all the "flower children" on the street corners and I knew for sure it was another country.
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When I was younger I belived that Kansas was in black and white because of the movie The Wizard of OZ!!!!
When I was kid I used to believe that I had to earn enough money to have one of everything that existed.
I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth state
When I was four years old, my parents took a vacation to the Grand Canyon. From their description, I invisioned it to be an inky black hole in the middle of a motel parking lot. A few years later when I was old enough, we traveled there. Imagine my surprise when I saw that big hole in the ground for myself.
When I was 5, we drove from California to Pennsylvania to visit my grandparents. My parents must've shown me where we were going on a map, and I saw that the land ended near there, because I assumed that when we got there, the land would just drop off right after their house. I remember looking down the street to see where the end was when we got there.
When I was very young, I'd heard of Hong Kong, either in a movie or on the news. I logically believed that this must be the place that King Kong was from.
Until...yesterday, actually, I was certain that Cleveland was in Denmark. I thought a lot of unusual things about them, now that I think about them. I used to think the Danish were called the Netherlanders. And they also invented doughnuts and dogs. And because they invented dogs, God lived there.
when my daughter was 2, we lived in Fl. We had told her she lived in Miami (MyAmEee). Someone asked her where she lived and she said Your Am Eee.
when I was about 3, I had just learned to read and I found an ashtray that said "Costa Rica" on it. I told everyone that "Costa Rica" was Spanish for "Puerto Rico". Dunno how I made that connection...
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I used to believe the Egyptians lives in appalling squalor because they lived next to the Sewage Canal (Suez - get it?)
Another one for cricket fans, for a long time I beleived that the cricket ground Lords was the same place that The Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette.
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up until the otha day i used to believe that when u went to watch a sporting event live the commentray we get on tv was also given to all the people watching live :-S
When I was really young I used to think that when someone said "the winner will be chosen at random" that Random was a place!
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I use to think that the prime minister would sit down at a big table and name everything so we would know what to call it.
I thought that if you couldn't afford something, you could write a cheque. I confidently told my dad that when I grew up I would save all my money and just write cheques for eveything. He explained bank accounts and ruined everything.
When I first learned about George Washington crossing the Delaware, I thought that "delaware" was a word for a body of water somewhat bigger than a stream, but smaller than a river.
In Hong Kong there's a Catholic secondary school called Mary Knoll College which has lovely red-brick neo-classical buildings, and to my young eyes that style of architecture exemplify the American landscape that I sometimes saw on travel programmes on TV.
So when one day my family drove by that college in a car and I saw those majestic red brick buildings whizzing by (there was also a white steepled church as well) I couldn't believe it and asked out loud, 'Have we driven to America already?'