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Originally Posted by gmw
The same conjunction rule comes into similar difficulties when you hit sentences with inconvenient sub-clauses like this:
1) "It's my life and, whatever you say, I'll do what I want."
2) "It's my life, and whatever you say, I'll do what I want."
I've seen style guides recommend the second, but often see first in published work when that is the intended phrasing.
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That example is dialogue, and in dialogue, all bets are off. You can do what you want. Standard rules of punctuation do not apply.
But in normal prose, I believe the first case is correct because the "and" is not part of the inessential clause which is placed between commas.