And not in  a good way.

This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web. 
Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different …

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Displays the post excerpt in in the post editor’s optional excerpt field followed by "…"-  unless followed by additional code, will NOT include a "Read More" link.

"Limits the displayed text length on the index page entries and generates a link to a page to read the full content if its bigger than the selected maximum length. By Alfonso Sánchez-Paus Díaz y …

If your home.php is using

to define post teasers then you have to use the more tag to delineate where the teaser ends…

This is the standard Magazine Theme  featured section:
(note that the "featured" div lives in the homepageleft div)