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+# Personal Manifests
+
+Per-user manifests live in `modules/people/manifests/LOGIN.pp`, where
+`LOGIN` is a GitHub login. A simple user manifest example:
+
+```puppet
+class people::jbarnette {
+  include emacs
+
+  $home     = '/Users/jbarnette'
+  $my       = "${home}/my"
+  $dotfiles = "${my}/dotfiles"
+
+  repository { $dotfiles:
+    source  => 'jbarnette/dotfiles',
+    require => File[$my]
+  }
+}
+```
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