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 This repository contains the [yearbook](https://education.github.com/graduation/yearbook) for **GitHub Graduation 2021**. By issuing a pull request to this repository, you can request to be added to the Class of 2021. 
 
-The first 5,000 pull request successfully merged into the repository by May 27 will receive custom swag in the mail. 
+The first 5,000 sucessfull pull request that are merged into the repository by May 27 will receive custom swag in the mail. 
 
 
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