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FILE - In a Sept. 23, 2003 file photo, the real Linus, artist Linus Maurer, cuts a ribbon after unveiling a statue of Linus of "Peanuts" comic strip fame during a ceremony at his hometown of Sleepy Eye, Minn. Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend Charles Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s sidekick in his “Peanuts” comic strip, has died. Maurer’s longtime partner Mary Jo Starsiak said Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, that Maurer died Jan. 29 in Sonoma, California. He was 90. (John Cross/The Free Press via AP)

FILE - In a Sept. 23, 2003 file photo, the real Linus, artist Linus Maurer, cuts a ribbon after unveiling a statue of Linus of "Peanuts" comic strip fame during a ceremony at his hometown of Sleepy Eye, Minn. Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend Charles Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s sidekick in his “Peanuts” comic strip, has died. Maurer’s longtime partner Mary Jo Starsiak said Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, that Maurer died Jan. 29 in Sonoma, California. He was 90. (John Cross/The Free Press via AP)

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