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Comparing Peanuts to existentialism is an insult – to Peanuts

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

For the hundredth, possibly the thousandth, time, Lucy van Pelt offers to hold the football for Charlie Brown so he can kick it. She cajoles him with the innocence of her eyes.

He falls for it; he falls for it every time. Lucy, as she always does, whips the ball away.

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