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    ~shacked up with an ob/gyn~
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    I don't know if I am correct, but I always thought it meant that some additional information was being inserted to help the reader understand the quote. Or that something was being paraphrased or clarified such as the [To have Frye be].

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      Nellie you are right on the button. Everything inside the quotation marks is a direct quote from someone, except what is in brackets. The brackets indicate that the author is inserting her own words to clarify antecedents, etc.
      Gwen
      Mom to a 12yo boy, 8yo boy, 6yo girl and 3yo boy. Wife to Glaucoma specialist and CE(everything)O of our crazy life!

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