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I hear a book being written, my sister says, or is it a poem?

Her eyes are closed.

It has a lot of semicolons.

One sentence or two? she wants to know. Comma? Period.

Well, I say, semicolons join and separate.

Grammar, my sister says, is very interesting.

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