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 <p align="center">get a json value quickly</a></p>
 
-GJSON is a Go package the provides a [very fast](#performance) and simple way to get a value from a json document. The reason for this library it to give efficient json indexing for the [BuntDB](https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb) project. 
+GJSON is a Go package that provides a [very fast](#performance) and simple way to get a value from a json document. The purpose for this library it to give efficient json indexing for the [BuntDB](https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb) project. 
 
 For a command line interface check out [JSONed](https://github.com/tidwall/jsoned).