| It's because we live in an Age Of Sideways Thoughts, where every sentence implies not so much its opposite as its adjacent thought, and only the em-dash supplies constant parallel constructions. |
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| The breakthrough star Mike Sims-Walker gives David Garrard the go-to receiver he needs to throw passes longer than an em-dash, and Maurice Jones-Dremainsains Jacksonville's best runner-receiver. |
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| However, if the author used an em-dash to start or end a paragraph or a line of poetry, you should leave it as it is, without joining it to the next line. |
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| Similarly, if an em-dash appears at the start or end of a line of your OCR'd text, join it with the other line so that there are no spaces or line breaks around it. |
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