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| - Following directly from the previous arc, the storyline opens with Penny trying to determine what's got Aggie so upset. Aggie blurts out that it has something to do with Karen. Unable to understand her speech through the sobbing, Penny, based on the little she knows about Aggie, assumes that Karen taunted her about her deceased mother the same way she'd once contemplated doing. However, when she figures out Aggie's actually upset over Karen having "snatched away" Marshall, she claims boys aren't worth getting upset over. Miffed, Aggie snaps back into snark mode and the two are enemies once again. But now Aggie, having accomplished her initial mission to blow off steam, through antagonizing Penny, feels better.
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| - Following directly from the previous arc, the storyline opens with Penny trying to determine what's got Aggie so upset. Aggie blurts out that it has something to do with Karen. Unable to understand her speech through the sobbing, Penny, based on the little she knows about Aggie, assumes that Karen taunted her about her deceased mother the same way she'd once contemplated doing. However, when she figures out Aggie's actually upset over Karen having "snatched away" Marshall, she claims boys aren't worth getting upset over. Miffed, Aggie snaps back into snark mode and the two are enemies once again. But now Aggie, having accomplished her initial mission to blow off steam, through antagonizing Penny, feels better. As the summer draws to a close, Aggie composes a love sonnet for Marshall, loosely based on Classical Mythology, but thinks better of showing it to him just yet. Meanwhile, Penny catches up with her friend Michelle Brown, who's just returned from an abortive family relocation to California with emotional baggage involving body issues and resentment of her father. (Subsequent storylines reveal the reason for this resentment and bring her body image problem more into focus.) Aggie's father Nick, feeling old after spraining his back, joins a gym on his doctor's recommendation and begins dating his trainer, Charisma, a free spirit now looking for a man who's more mature, like him. Nick soon makes his peace with getting older. At the end of this chapter, the strip moved from pay site Modern Tales to Keenspot, and spent several months rerunning all the strips so they'd be in the free archive before Variety Pack.
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