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the Eternal Optimist

“This year has

to be the year I

kick that ol’ ball.”

—Charlie Brown

I

t’s a fall tradition. The football season doesn’t really be-

gin until Lucy convinces Charlie Brown—again—that

she’s going to hold a football in place so that he can kick

it. Each time, he is justifiably skeptical, but she somehow

convinces him that this is the year that she’ll finally let him

kick the football. And each and every year, she pulls the

ball away at the last second, and Charlie Brown flies into

the air and lands flat on his back. And every year, Lucy ex-

plains to Charlie Brown that his trust in her was misplaced,

but both of them know that the cycle will repeat itself the

following year.

This tradition was actually started by Violet, who first

pulled the football away from Charlie Brown before Lucy

moved into the neighborhood. Lucy soon took over the

annual ritual, pulling the football on Charlie Brown’s

second attempt.

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