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A mini-dissertation on the history of attitudes toward this punctuation mark that I often use to on two independent clauses where a period would separate them excessively and an em dash would relate them too closely. Kurt Vonnegut trashed semi-colons but other literary icons used and sometimes overused them. I'm all in favor of keeping them.
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