was a “Little Red-Haired Girl” — her name was Donna and she was Schulz’s big boyhood crush (he was distraught when she married someone else).Schulz, who never took a vacation or missed a deadline, continued to do all the work on “Peanuts” himself, even after having heart surgery in 1981, when his post-surgical shaky writing and drawing was simply incorporated into the comic strip without missing a beat.
He retired in 2000 and died that February at the age of 77, leaving behind a pop-culture legacy that continues to resonate around the world 70 years after its birth..
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