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@@ -20,3 +20,9 @@ First proper run:
 ![well, um...](./doc/first_time.png)
 
 Something's not right here, unless the hit new baby name is `kaaaaasehaaeaaal`.
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+After a few more rounds of debugging, I'm stumped. There must be some subtle pythonic behavior that my rewrite isn't capturing that's causing my results to all be nonsense like `eadaaaaannnaanba` and `oetlaaceta`, but I can't see it (and I don't know enough python to find it).
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+This was still a useful learning opportunity, although a frustrating one in the end.