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 # vfastronauts
 
 Your personalized, hands-on guide to learning Git and GitHub.
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 3. Create a branch (aka a copy of those same files)
 4. Make a change to a file on your own branch (and save it, but without affecting the original file in the "master" branch)
 5. [Submit a "Pull Request"](https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-pull-requests) - aka push up that change for review by someone else
-6. ["Merge" that change to "master"](aka publish it and port those changes back up to the original file)
+6. "Merge" that change to "master" (aka publish it and port those changes back up to the original file)
 
 ## What you need
 
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+## HELLO!
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+This is a sample doc, written in [Markdown](https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet).
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+Check out that link. You'll get the hang of it.