I've got a double memoir book from my father's mother and father, one story each, as one book. I'm converting it to modern formats and I'll probably release it as a new edition on archive.org for the family to read.
I've noticed a lot of "I think this is written by AI --- you can tell because it's full of em dashes" going around the Internet lately. That feels weird to me.
From my grandmother's second chapter, here's a 1917 letter to a newspaper full of em dashes:
https://paste.sr.ht/~bkidwell/2d5fa4d9fc69c964cb87402b741dbdd0e7b22faf
progo in NYC
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