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I'm here today with Cecilia Watson, the author of a book called,

Semicolon, Past, Present and Future of a misunderstood Mark.

Because when this show comes out, it'll be World Semicolon Day.

So yay, welcome Cecilia.

Thank you so much and thank you very much for having me on for this important holiday.

Right.

We have to celebrate everything we can these days.

Yeah, so we talked a long time listeners will remember we talked when your book first came out,

which I think was about a year and a half ago, but we have some answers to questions that we had back then.

And there's just always something to talk about when it comes to the Semicolon.

I certainly agree with that.

So is there anything new that you're thinking about the Semicolon these days?

Ooh, I am always kind of gathering new examples of really great Semicolon usage and a couple of the authors that I've been reading since we last spoke.

One of them was Tony Morrison after she passed away.

I think a lot of people were rereading her work and I had read her before, but never really noticed.

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