things I believed as a child that might not have been true:
I believed it was physically impossible for any human being to eat an entire dairy queen banana split in one sitting
I believed that cher actually stopped in our small southern illinois farm town (on a weekday, mind you) to eat lunch at the local pizza hut
I believed, wholeheartedly, that the high school gym was named after my dad jim, because, I mean, he was the high school basketball coach and spent the majority of his time there and my seven year-old self thought, well, why else would they call it that
