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A Comic-Strip Appeal Doubles Donations to an Annual Fund

When Lisa, a character in Tom Batiuk's nationally syndicated comic strip Funky Winkerbean, discovered she had breast cancer last year, she and her husband visited the Gathering Place, a nonprofit group in Beachwood, Ohio, that helps cancer patients and their loved ones.

Benjamin Light, the Gathering Place's...

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