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@@ -10,22 +10,3 @@ publicly available Japanese dictionaries and are therefore used by a variety of
 The XML format used to store dictionary entries and entity data was deceptively annoying to work with, leading to the
 creation of this library. Please see the [documentation page](https://godoc.org/github.com/FooSoft/jmdict) for a
 technical overview of how to use this library.
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