Linus opens up a clinic in a storyline starting April 18, 1983, right after he gives up his blanket. Linus tells Lucy that he put an advertisement in the newspaper for his new clinic, that he hopes will help children give up their security blankets, just as he did. Linus expects hundreds of children to come, but only one child, whose identidy is unknown at first because a blanket is covering the child's face, comes.