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| | You're a Good Man, Charles Schultz |
 | | One of Schultz's daughters explains one of the comic strips biggest dilemas: "He was always asked, 'Why doesn't Charlie Brown kick the football?' My dad's answer would always be, 'because losing is something that everybody identifies with'." |
 | | Schultz's wife, Jean, relates, "He [told a] story that one day his secretary told him that her son came home the night before, threw his jacket down on the couch, and said, 'I feel just like Charlie Brown!' He said, 'Then I realized, that was what this was all about. |
 | | The deeper meaning of the comic, according to Schultz's daughter: "[I think of] the spirit of the characters in the strip as being a group of children, all very different, who really are, even among all their baseball losses, and Lucy's crabbiness, and Snoopy's different personalities, good to one another." |
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