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David Michael Slonim's avatar

Beautifully written, Rebekah.

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Rebekah Slonim's avatar

Thanks for reading!

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Rachel Lane's avatar

It’s interesting to see how language--and punctuation--change over time. Theodore Roosevelt occasionally had some interesting punctuation conventions that I wouldn’t use myself, and he lived more recently than Austen.

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Rebekah Slonim's avatar

Maybe you/we can write a future issue on TR’s punctuation!

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