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Anika Orrock is an illustrator and cartoonist – interests she inherited from her beloved grandfather Ray Orrock, a cartoonist and well-known writer in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. On the wall of her grandparents' house hung a personalised Peanuts comic strip, addressed to Ray and signed by the legendary cartoonist and Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz. Anika loved and studied the comic strip throughout her childhood, but when Ray became sick, he decided to auction it to pay for his hospice care. He sold it cheaply to someone online who said it would be a lifelong dream to own it. But years later after Ray had died, Anika discovered it had been a scam. Anika was furious, went hunting for it, without luck - but years later, it would return to her in the most unexpected way.

Reporter: Zoe Gelber
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(Photo: Anika Orrock with some of her relatives in 1992, sitting in front of her grandfather’s original Peanuts comic strip drawn for him by Charles M. Schulz. Credit: Courtesy of Anika Orrock)