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A "Raspberry Moon" needs to be explained prior to the quote--probably as dialogue, but possibly as part of a third- person omniscient information dump. It is absolutely wrong to put parentheses within the quote. In newspapers and such, parenthetical remarks from the editor are placed in brackets [ ].

Although it would be amateur to do so, one could follow the quote with: And Barney asked, "What's a Raspberry Moon?"

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