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Sometimes two paragraphs are separated to indicate a thought break. A thought break may take the form of a line of stars, hyphens or some other character, a plain or floridly decorated horizontal line, a simple decoration, or even just an extra blank line or two.

A thought break may represent a change of scene or subject, a lapse in time or a bit of suspense. This is intended by the author, so we preserve them in formatting by putting a blank line, <tb>, and then another blank line. (During proofreading, thought breaks can be ignored.)

In post-processing, a thought break is usually represented by a row of five asterisks in the plain text version and by a horizontal rule in the HTML version.