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</p> is only required in XHTML but not in HTML. Some times you have to close it anyway , e.g. when you align the paragraph left/right/center.

Would mixing the usage of </p> as in the following be a bad idea? Note that there is no ending </p> tag in the 1st and 3rd paragraph.

<h1>My article</h1> <p>This is my 1st paragraph. <p class="align=right">This is my 2nd paragraph</p> <p>This is my 3rd paragraph.

Reasons why I don't want to close the P-tags: