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Well, names that are new to you. In today’s One Big Happy:

Apparently unfamiliar with Spanish personal names, Ruthie treats FIDEL as the closest word she can read: FIDDLE. And then sticks to that.

The Wikipedia page tells us that

The strip takes place on Buena Vista Avenue and in an unspecified city based on Baltimore, Maryland, where the creator grew up.

Apparently in a very Anglo neighborhood of near-Baltimore.

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