I'll answer your second question.
No, you're not putting too many periods at the ends of your sentences. 3 is fine, 4 is just past that line of decency. That I drew. With a dry erase marker. On a sidewalk the same color. In the rain.
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The dots are called an ellipsis.
Three is past the line I drew when I read wikipedia.