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Snoopy, of Peanuts comic strip fame, was sitting on his dog house writing another novel. It begins as all of Snoopy's novels begin. "It was a dark and stormy night...." Lucy sees the opening to his novel, goes into a tirade, and berates him. "How silly it is," she said, "for such a beginning. Don't you know that every great story begins, 'Once upon a time....' " In the next frame Snoopy is rewriting the first page and it reads, "Once upon a time, it was a dark and stormy night...." Perhaps you feel that way sometimes?
