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 ![ci](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/workflows/ci/badge.svg)[![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/nxadm/tail.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/nxadm/tail)
 
-This is repo is forked from the dormant upstream repo at
+This is repo is forked from the dormant upstream at
 [hpcloud](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail). This fork adds support for go
 modules, updates the dependencies, adds features and fixes bugs. Go 1.9 is
 the oldest compiler release supported.