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Crossing Over

SA CHILD, I was engrossed by a study of unrequited affections in which we never see the girl Charlie Brown longs for except her silhouette in the distance, necessarily out of reach. “Each of us can imagine what she must look like much better than I could ever draw her,” Charles Schulz said, when asked why the little red-haired girl doesn’t appear in the original strips. Having come of age in

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