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Charles “Collie” Agle, 81, a supporter and participant in naturalist causes who was active in campaigns to clean up the Anacostia River in Washington, organized community fix-up and improvement trips to Honduras for Washington youths, and practiced forest conservation techniques and bird sanctuary policies at a West Virginia farm, died Dec. 22 at a hospital in Washington.

“After all these kids died — now is the fix-up?”

She seeks out John, first as a kindred spirit, then as a fix-up project.

At heart, it’s the story of a fix-up: a double character study — complex, true and unpredictable — about two strangers brought together by a third, who hasn’t even been born yet.

“We were seated next to each other, I think with that in mind,” he said of the fix-up.