Perhaps of interest...

[John Doe]

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115726/period-our-simplest-punctuation-mark-has-become-sign-anger

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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