diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright 2012,2013,2014 Russell O'Connor
+Copyright (c) 2014, michaelt
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
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+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
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+      with the distribution.
+
+    * Neither the name of michaelt nor the names of other
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+(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/Lens/Simple.hs b/Lens/Simple.hs
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+{-#LANGUAGE CPP #-}
+module Lens.Simple (
+    -- * Stock Lenses
+    _1, _2
+    , chosen
+    , ix
+    , at, intAt
+    , contains, intContains
+    
+    -- * Stock Traversals
+    , both
+    , _Left, _Right
+    , _Just, _Nothing
+    , ignored
+    
+    -- * Basic lens combinators
+    , to, view, (^.)
+    , folding, views, (^..), (^?)
+    , toListOf, allOf, anyOf, firstOf, lastOf, sumOf, productOf
+    , lengthOf, nullOf
+    , backwards
+    , over, (%~), set, (.~)
+    , (&)
+    
+    -- * Pseudo-imperatives
+    , (+~), (*~), (-~), (//~), (&&~), (||~), (<>~)
+    
+    -- * State related combinators
+    , zoom
+    , use, uses
+    , (%=)
+    , assign, (.=)
+    , (%%=)
+    , (<~)
+    
+    -- * Compound state assignments
+    , (+=), (-=), (*=)
+    , (//=)
+    , (&&=), (||=)
+    , (<>=)
+    
+    -- * Stock Semantic Editor Combinators
+    , mapped
+    
+    -- * Lens formers
+    , lens
+    , iso
+    , setting
+    
+    -- * Combining Combinators
+    , choosing
+    , alongside
+    , beside
+
+    -- * TH incantations
+    , makeLenses
+    , makeTraversals
+    , makeLensesBy
+    , makeLensesFor
+    -- * Types
+    
+    , LensLike, LensLike'
+    , FoldLike, FoldLike'
+    , ASetter, ASetter'
+    , Phantom
+    , Constant, Identity
+    , AlongsideLeft, AlongsideRight
+    , Zooming
+    
+    
+    -- * Re-exports
+    , Applicative, Foldable, Monoid(..),(<>)
+    , Backwards, All, Any, First, Last, Sum, Product
+    , StateT, Writer
+  ) where
+import Lens.Family2.Unchecked
+import Lens.Family2.Stock
+import Lens.Family2.State.Strict
+import Lens.Family2.TH (makeLenses, makeTraversals, makeLensesBy, makeLensesFor)
+import Data.Monoid
+#if MIN_VERSION_base(4,8,0)
+import Data.Function ((&))
+import Lens.Family hiding (Fold,(&))
+#else
+import Lens.Family hiding (Fold)
+#endif
+
+infixl 1 ??
+-- | Generalized infix flip, replicating @Control.Lens.Lens.??@
+-- 
+-- >>>  execStateT ?? (0,"") $ do _1 += 1; _1 += 1; _2 <>= "hello" 
+-- (2,"hello")
+
+(??) :: Functor f => f (a -> b) -> a -> f b
+ff ?? a = fmap ($ a) ff
+{-# INLINE (??) #-}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+lens-simple
+==================
+
+This just re-exports the combinators and elementary lenses and traversals from the original 'van Laarhoven' lens library, Russell O'Connor's [`lens-family`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-core) package, including `Lens.Family.State.Strict`, and the corresponding TH module from Dan Burton's [`lens-family-th`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th) so you can `makeLenses` and `makeTraversals` automatically.
+
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/lens-simple.cabal b/lens-simple.cabal
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+name:                lens-simple
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            simplified import of essential lens combinators
+
+description:         This module, @Lens.Simple@, just re-exports the main modules from Russell O\'Connor's 
+                     <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-core lens-family-core> 
+                     package, the original <http://r6.ca/blog/20120623T104901Z.html van Laarhoven lens> library. 
+                     @Lens.Simple@ also re-exports @makeLenses@ and 
+                     other TH incantations from Dan Burton's associated 
+                     <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th lens-family-th>. 
+                     .
+                     The idea is just to make a lens-family equivalent of @import Control.Lens@, namely @import Lens.Simple@ 
+                     /-/- it's even one character shorter! As an illustration, note that 
+                     the <https://github.com/michaelt/lens-family-simple/blob/master/examples/Pong.hs pong example> 
+                     from the @lens@ library requires only this abbreviating change of imports. 
+                     .
+                     Similarly, when need arises for the unfathomably more 
+                     sophisticated material in @Control.Lens@, a
+                     change of imports will tend be all that is necessary 
+                     to begin using them. 
+                     .
+                     It should be kept in mind that the @zoom@ exported here does
+                     not use @MonadState@ from @mtl@ but is 
+                     specialized to @Control.Monad.Trans.State.Strict@  Many of
+                     the other lenses and combinators are a bit more 
+                     specialized than their @Control.Lens@ equivalents: 
+                     for example, _1 and _2 are here 
+                     familiarly specialized to act just on real Haskell
+                     pairs; with the loss of abstraction we also of course
+                     lose the concomitant opaque error messages 
+                     about @Field1 s t a b@ etc.
+                     
+-- description:  
+
+homepage:            https://github.com/michaelt/lens-simple
+license:             BSD3
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              michaelt
+maintainer:          what_is_it_to_do_anything@yahoo.com
+copyright:           Copyright (C) 2012,2013,2014 Russell O'Connor, 2014 michaelt
+category:            Lenses     
+build-type:          Simple
+extra-source-files:  README.md
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/michaelt/lens-simple    
+    
+library
+  exposed-modules:     Lens.Simple
+  build-depends:       base >= 4       && < 5
+                       , lens-family == 1.2.*
+                       , lens-family-core == 1.2.*
+                       , lens-family-th == 0.4.*
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
