What a nice surprise it is to find that a truly personal story inspired Charles Schulz to create the little red-haired girl in Peanuts. Donna Wold declined Schulz’s marriage proposal in the late 1940’s and married someone else. She has no regrets, but did stay in touch and collected all the strips that mentioned the little red-haired girl. Hey, she certainly can’t regret being immortalized in the comics. After all, I’ve never noticed his wife mentioned (though I imagine she was probably influential).