AUTUMN RITUALS
Fall has a great deal of ritual about it in our country. Football games, school starting up again in full force, and Lucy offers to hold the football for Charlie Brown. Every year she offers. He protests that he knows she will pull it away at the last minute and he will get upended tail over teakettle. But one way or another, she always manages to talk him into trusting her once again, and she pulls it away as always. And this time, the final frame shows Charlie Brown looking up from his supine position on the ground. And Lucy looks down deeply into his eyes and says, “Your faith in human nature is an inspiration to all young people.” Trust, Faith Misplaced
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