Cognitive Dissonance
Rita genuinely believed that there were forty-nine states in the USA. Her friends tried their hardest to talk some sense into her. Rita kept denying that Hawaii was a state. She insisted that it was a city. Her friends dropped it after a while, but it's still unbelievable.
She insisted that it was a city. Rita genuinely believed that there were forty-nine states in the USA. Her friends dropped it after a while, but it's still unbelievable. Her friends tried their hardest to talk some sense into her. Rita kept denying that Hawaii was a state.