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-<span align="center"><strong>Requests</strong> is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥</span>
+<p align="center"><strong>Requests</strong> is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥</p>
 
 ```pycon
 >>> import requests