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+title: Your awesome title
+author: GitHub User
+email: your-email@domain.com
+description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
+  Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
+  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
+  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
+
+# social links
+twitter_username: your-twitter-handle
+github_username:  your-github-handle
+
+show_excerpts: true # set to false to remove excerpts on the homepage