diff --git a/Divorce-Your-Linux-Admin.rst b/Divorce-Your-Linux-Admin.rst
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--- a/Divorce-Your-Linux-Admin.rst
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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 like this.)
 
 I will spare you sensitive readers the subsequent cursing, whining,
-begging, crying and caterwauling that ensured.  Let's just say that
+begging, crying and caterwauling that ensued.  Let's just say that
 making a position-dependent package management system work in a
 position-independent way is ... er, non-trivial.  In fairness, it's
 not the fault of the ``linuxbrew`` people.  They were super supportive