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Can you explain to me about this sentence's grammatical structure? How come "had" and "have" were used here? Is it kind of a subjunctive mood sentence?

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Rebecca

This sentence is a hypothetical scenario of how Charlie Brown would have liked for things to have happened in the past. "Have" and "had" are both used in this sentence because it's tying how if Charlie's crush wanted to talk to him, it would have been very easy because Charlie is an easy person to talk to. I also believe you are correct about the sentence being a subjunctive mood sentence. This is because it is discussing something that is imagined: the girl Charlie likes talking to him in an easy and care-free manner.

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