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-LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.**
+LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
 
 > **This repository is receiving very limited maintenance. We will only review the following types of changes.**
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