I think you're having a Principal Skinner meme moment here...

Could it be me who wrote a comment that was slightly unclear?

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No, it's couple dozen or so other commenters who are wrong.

followed by a line break / new paragraph (which you conveniently removed)

I removed nothing. Maybe your client works with single line breaks. The browser ignores a single line break (enter) and only works with one extra empty line.

this will           |  this will render
render as a         |  
single line         |  a separate paragraph