At the end of Anne Tyler’s novel “Breathing Lessons,” the heroine, Maggie Moran, imagines herself one day ascending to heaven and meeting St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. He hands her a bulging gunnysack of beloved objects she’d somehow lost during her lifetime: a dress, a keychain, a necklace of clear brown beads. Tyler's gunnysack was uppermost in my mind a couple of weeks ago, on an excursion to Santa Rosa to visit the Charles M. Schulz Museum. If a bag of lost stuff is waiting for me at the Pearly Gates, that bag is no doubt holding my Snoopy lunchbox.
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