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@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Your `transactionalClient.go` takes several arguments (see code), but the two im
 are:
 - `-p` - tells your code to do two things:
   - at end-of-text write out commit/abort notifications for each transaction
-    whose fate has been decided, in the order that they were decided
+    whose fate has been decided, in the order that they were decided.
   - write out the contents of your KV store, ordered lexicographically by key value. Only
     written values need be printed.
 - `-s` use snapshot isolation instead serializable isolation