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@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ The advantage to using this over other solutions is that your data is persistent
 unlike memcached, and Cassandra is designed to store key-value data like
 this, so performance is much closer to that of memcached than with a database.
 
+Note: This work was initially based off of [tokyo-tyrant-sessions](http://github.com/ericflo/django-tokyo-sessions) by Eric Flo.
+
 Installing cassandra-sessions
 -----------------------------
 
@@ -32,7 +34,4 @@ Installing cassandra-sessions
       <ReplicaPlacementStrategy>org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy</ReplicaPlacementStrategy>
       <ReplicationFactor>1</ReplicationFactor>
       <EndPointSnitch>org.apache.cassandra.locator.EndPointSnitch</EndPointSnitch>
-    </Keyspace>
-
-That's it.  Hopefully this backend gives you all the better performance while
-still not sacrificing persistence.
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+    </Keyspace>
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