The semicolon has turned into more than a pesky piece of punctuation.

It’s now a symbol of hope for anyone who has ever attempted suicide, self-harmed or supports those who have.

The semicolon was chosen as the symbol because it used to separate major clauses in a sentence; in other words, “The semicolon is used when a sentence could have ended, but didn’t,” according to the Semicolon Movement.

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