Childhood innocence
Virginity
Belief in Santa Claus
The Easter Bunny
Mermaids
The invincibility of parents
The power of the Catholic Church:
*To forgive sins
*To change wine into blood
*To change bread into the body of Christ
*The infallibility of the Pope
*That you have to go to church to get to heaven
*The belief that the policeman is my friend
*Or that a politician can be trusted
*That cleanliness is next to godliness
*That hell exists (it’s here on earth)
*Ditto purgatory
*Ditto Limbo
*That lightning never strikes twice in the same place
*That honesty is always the best policy
*That a mother will die protecting her child (some mothers murder their own children
Also lost:
My high school ring
My dad’s Nikon camera
My wedding ring
oh. wait. those three things were stolen, not lost.
Final lost:
*That one’s own children wouldn’t steal from you.
Sandra Lee Smith, 2010/updated May, 2018
