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+# Tarot Project
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+This site produces random tarot card readings for the rising sun layout to help you find a new perspective on a specific problem.
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+## Learning
+
+This project is intended to help me learn AJAX requests, data structures & object oriented programming. In the future I hope to continue learning about node & databases through this project. 
+