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 # CREDITS
 
 hledger is brought to you by the
-
-- Issue wranglers,
-- Bug hunters,
-- Design dreamers,
-- Code slingers,
-- Doc poets,
-- Package marshals,
-- Helping hands,
-- Good news preachers,
-- Bank rollers,
-- Broom pushers,
-
-by the pioneering John Wiegley, who opened up this territory with [Ledger](https://ledger-cli.org),
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-and by the innumerable other benefactors making it all possible.
+Issue wranglers,
+Bug hunters,
+Design dreamers,
+Code slingers,
+Doc poets,
+Package marshals,
+Helping hands,
+Good news preachers,
+Bank rollers,
+Broom pushers,
+by the pioneering John Wiegley,
+and innumerable other benefactors.
 
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