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 # Who are you?
 
-Old emulator fans and devs can recongnize me as "shadow". I was the founder and coder for a lot of emulation projects:
+Old emulator fans and devs can recognize me as "shadow". I was the founder and coder for a lot of emulation projects:
 * PCSX
 * PCSX2
 * PCSP