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+=== Twenty Seventeen Child ===
+Contributors:  dandelionweb
+Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JEMTB4U8SYFL6
+Requires at least: WordPress 4.7
+Tested up to: WordPress 4.7.2
+Version: 0.1
+License: GPLv2 or later
+License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
+Tags: child theme
+
+== Description ==
+
+A blank child theme for Twenty Seventeen. 
+
+For more information about Twenty Seventeen please go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Seventeen.
+
+== Installation ==
+
+1. Download the zip file from https://github.com/ruthmaude/twentyseventeen-child.
+2. In your admin panel, go to Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Upload Theme -> Choose File.
+2. Browse your computer for the twentyseventeen-child.zip file downloaded in step 1 above.
+3. click Open -> Install Now -> Activate.
+4. Go to https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Seventeen for a guide on how to customize this theme.
+5. Navigate to Appearance > Customize in your admin panel and customize to taste.
+
+== Copyright ==
+
+Twenty Seventeen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2016 WordPress.org
+Twenty Seventeen is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+Twenty Seventeen bundles the following third-party resources:
+
+HTML5 Shiv, Copyright 2014 Alexander Farkas
+Licenses: MIT/GPL2
+Source: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv
+
+jQuery scrollTo, Copyright 2007-2015 Ariel Flesler
+License: MIT
+Source: https://github.com/flesler/jquery.scrollTo
+
+normalize.css, Copyright 2012-2016 Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
+License: MIT
+Source: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
+
+Font Awesome icons, Copyright Dave Gandy
+License: SIL Open Font License, version 1.1.
+Source: http://fontawesome.io/
+
+Bundled header image, Copyright Alvin Engler
+License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
+Source: https://unsplash.com/@englr?photo=bIhpiQA009k
+
+== Changelog ==
+
+= 1.0 =
+* Released: February 11, 2017
+
+
+Initial release