Think You Don't Need to be Edited? Think Again

Dark Jar Tin Zoo wrote, ���Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.��� (Love Quotes for the Ages, Specifically Ages 19-91).
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Every writer needs to be edited: Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, speechwriters for presidents, you and I (you and me?). Should I have inserted a period after that closed parenthesis? Or, is it parentheses?

It pays to self-edit your work before