Drawing many lines that look unique

In AI CS3, I want to draw anywhere from 20 to 200 freehand lines with the pencil tool that are approximately parallel. Adding a brush to the lines gives me the charcoal or soft pencil look I want, but they are all obviously the same image stretched or twisted to conform to the lines I drew. And there are not enough similar brushes to make that many strokes look unique.
Is there an efficient way to give lines the kind of variation in the edges and in the tiny gaps that one would expect when using a physical brush or piece of charcoal?
Thanks,
John

Draw a circle, rough it up real good, make a scatter brush out of it, experiment with the scatter and distance, set the rotation for 180 each way, random...

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