There are ten errors in the use of punctuation marks in the following text. Rewrite the text correcting the errors.
Youve cut off your hair, asked Jim, laboriously as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. Cut it off and sold it, said Della. Dont you like me just as well, anyhow Im me without my hair aint I Jim looked about the room curiously. You say your hair is gone he said with an air of almost idiocy.
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet, even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it,” said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?" Jim looked about the room curiously. "You say your hair is gone?" he said with an air of almost idiocy.
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