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+## Description
+Detail your changes here.  
+A few sentences describing the overall goals of the pull request's commits will suffice.
+Some questions you might answer:
+
+* Why was this change required?
+* Did you have any tough decisions to make? Which one(s) did you go with and why?
+* Are there any deployment impacts to this change?
+* Is there something you aren't happy with or that needs extra attention?
+
+## Testing
+Outline steps to test your changes.
+
+1. Go here.
+1. Click this.
+1. See that.
+
+## To-Dos
+- [ ] tests
+- [ ] documentation
+
+## References
+* [GitHub Issue ####](https://github.com/drapergem/draper/issues/####)
+* [GitHub Pull Request ####](https://github.com/drapergem/draper/pull/####)