What were some misconceptions you had about the world when you were a child?

[Nash]

I thought for an embarrassingly sizable portion of my life that like my hometown, every other city in the world had a twin city of similar size and more sad, grey demeanor. The fact that my parents often visited Dallas and Tampa did not help this misconception, with the St. Petersburg situation being doubly confounding, as I for a short time also held the belief that a latter twin city's name also had to begin with the word Saint.