Making a single line break in markdown

Sometimes when you write markdown, you'll write some paragraph...

and then you hit "Enter" twice to make another paragraph.

Like this...

...and then this.

This will render:

<p>Like this...</p>
<p>...and then this.</p>

But, sometimes you want to make a single line break, kind of like in HTML where you have:

<p>
Like this... <br />
...and then this.
</p>

In markdown, you can just drop in a <br /> and it'll work perfectly fine. But, if …

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