A request from Charlie Brown

“Can you cure loneliness?” asks Charlie Brown.

“For a nickel I can cure anything.” Lucy says.

“Can you cure deep-down, black, bottom-of-the-well, no hope, end-of-the-world, what’s-the-use loneliness?” he asks.

“For the same nickel?!” she balks.

 

Charles Shultz, Peanuts.