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In this sentence:

I held it back and managed a squeaky "yes" in response.

How would you correctly punctuate the yes part?

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I held it back and managed a squeaky, "Yes!" in response.

thanks!

Well actually, why wouldn't there be a comma after the yes? Why is there one after squeaky?

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