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“One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.” PersonsJobsTurnsLiteratureLanguageSingingDrawsTrainCatholicismGardeningGrammarJerseyNew JerseyUsagePunctuationForeign LanguagePlumbingShippingMozzarella Book:Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen