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+# Cheri's site? omg!
+
+This is the code for building my personal website, with the contents itself and everything.
+Go check it out at https://cheri.pink
+
+It is still a pretty significantly a work in progress, things will probably be shufled around here later and such.
+But for now -
+
+### Building and running live
+just
+
+Initially, to install dependencies:
+
+```bash
+npm install
+```
+
+To run the project locally live
+
+```bash
+npm start
+```
+
+To build:
+
+```bash
+npm run build
+```
+
+***
+
+
+This code/template is licensed under the Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0.
+But if you want to reuse this, like, clean out /src/media and basically all the .md files and fill in /src/_data/site.json with your own stuff instead lol.
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