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 ## Controller and model interactions
 
-In general, we favor a [vanilla Rails](https://dev.37signals.com/vanilla-rails-is-plenty/) approach with thin controllers directly invoking a rich domain model. In general, we don't use services or other artifacts to connect the two.
+In general, we favor a [vanilla Rails](https://dev.37signals.com/vanilla-rails-is-plenty/) approach with thin controllers directly invoking a rich domain model. We don't use services or other artifacts to connect the two.
 
 Invoking plain Active Record operations is totally fine: