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-A practice repo to play around in.
+Best practice for using a well with an old-school suction pump is to keep a
+little water on hand with which to prime the pump. 
+
+The pump on the name well can also grow a little dry sometimes, so here is a
+bucket of components with which one might prime that pump, specifically for
+organizational names. 
+
+Example names and metasyntactic variables are just one category of
+practice components one can use in exercises and examples, toys and tests.
+Consider this repository as belonging to that category, a practice or
+metasyntactic repository to use when whats in the repository matters some,
+but not that much.
+
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+