Gawd! You don't really mean that you were taught the cherry tree story as fact? Honestly, when you think you heard it all... Every donkey knows not only that it was made up, but the source of the invention. I really do sympathize with you now. Though, when I remember some of the dreadful and virtually racist stuff about Germans one found in some of my elementary school (years 6 to 10) Italian textbooks, well...
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Date: 2005-12-10 10:19 am (UTC)