In other words, this is a Very Good Thing that XHTML 2 is doing. It's a right pain to try to implement correct behaviors via CSS, because the markup hasn't heretofore given you much to hang your hat on. This is actually a rather old markup problem; plenty of SGML DTDs have elements for so-called "continuing paragraphs."
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