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 A DynamoDB ORM for Node.js
 
-It aims to provide a few added features that most people will want from a DynamoDB tool.  These things include a Mongoose inspired way of doing things, periodic S3 backups, multi-indexing (clones data to seperate tables, having different indexes on each) and more.
+It aims to provide a few added features that most people will want from a DynamoDB tool.  These things include a Mongoose inspired way of doing things, periodic S3 backups, multi-indexing (clones data to separate tables, having different indexes on each) and more.
 
 For now it provides a simple way to interact with DynamoDB and create/read rows in the table.  More features coming.