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Reconsider spacing around em dashes #71

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At some point I read something that "restarting" a sentence should be done with an em dash and then a space, like so:

“I’m— I feel better, after talking to Glenn and Chevalier.”

We should also be sure to capitalize the rest of the sentence after the restart, as in this example:

“Were you— Did you help? Were you a part of that?”

Much of the current round of corrections enforces this.

However, I'm getting conflicting advice on this from various sources, and maybe this is incorrect. It's worth doing a more detailed dive into various style guides, other books, etc. and seeing what the right path is here, then doing a holistic pass.

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