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 snowflake
 </h1>
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-<p align="center">welcome to my custom nix config!</p>
+<p align="center">:snowflake: a flake or crystal of snow :snowflake:</p>
 
-<h2>Table of contents</h2>
+<h2>:open_book: Table of contents</h2>