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 # Keep Sergey happy
 
 I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started
-working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improving it,
+working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it,
 investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the
 community for free is
 [Super Light Regular Expression library](http://code.google.com/p/slre).