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 ## Use of the `transactionalClient` 
 Your `transactionalClient.go` takes several arguments (see code), but the two important ones
 are:
-- `-p`: tells your code to do two things:
-  - at end-of-text write out commit/abort notifications for each transaction
+- `-p`: tells your code upon encountering end-of-text (CTRL-D) to:
+  - write out commit/abort notifications for each transaction
     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.
+  - exit.
 - `-s`: use snapshot isolation instead serializable isolation
 
 `transactionalClient.go` differs from `client.go` in that it reads commands