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What is the best way to punctuate the pause in the sentence below?

What is the best way to punctuate the pause in the sentence below?-example-1
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The second option, from top to bottom: After I pick a book - usually a mystery or adventure story - I really enjoy curling up on the easy chair.

This happens because the pause was made for an observation to be made, in this case to give more details: "usually a mystery or adventure story." The information added by the pause serves to enrich the final text with new elements.

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