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+LEdoian's Wish
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+This is a simple Django project to create and share lists of wishes. There are two motivations for this project:
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+1. Christmas. Every time anybody asks me what I want for Christmas, I am totally unable to answer that.
+2. The need to test various Django extensions and features before production deployment.
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