diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+include Readme.md
+include LICENSE
+include requirements.txt
+include orcasong/version.txt
+
+recursive-include docs *
+
+recursive-exclude docs *.pyc
+recursive-exclude docs *.pyo
+prune docs/_build
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