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 =================
 
 Just fork the original repo at pragmaticlearning/github-example, make your changes and send over a Pull Request.
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+krause added a line to this file.
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+This file was created after the repo was forked.
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+This is the content for my first file.
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+This is a new file to be added to github-example.