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Haggadah Word Cloud

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I went over to Open Source Haggadah (an awesome resource for creating your own Haggadah) and grabbed the basic Haggadah text. Then I plugged it into Wordle and ended up with this fascinating and fun word cloud (click to enlarge):

Wordle: Text of Haggadah

Sweet!

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