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-[Drupal VM](https://www.drupalvm.com/) is A VM for local Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible.
+[Drupal VM](https://www.drupalvm.com/) is A VM for Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible.
 
-This project aims to make spinning up a simple local Drupal test/development environment incredibly quick and easy, and to introduce new developers to the wonderful world of Drupal development on local virtual machines (instead of crufty old MAMP/WAMP-based development).
+Drupal VM makes building local Drupal development environments quick and easy, and introduces developers to the wonderful world of Drupal development on local virtual machines (instead of crufty old MAMP/WAMP-based development).
 
 It will install the following on an Ubuntu 16.04 (by default) linux VM: