diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2013, Kirk Peterson
+
+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.
+
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+      with the distribution.
+
+    * Neither the name of Kirk Peterson nor the names of other
+      contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+      from this software without specific prior written permission.
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+uuid-aeson
+==========
+
+Aeson types for UUID instances.
+
+example
+=======
+
+Data.UUID.Aeson Data.UUID.V4 Data.Aeson Control.Monad> liftM (fromJSON .toJSON) nextRandom  :: IO (Result UUID)
+
+Success 99644d7c-298c-44a9-b9bb-d0ca9940cc4e
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/src/Data/UUID/._Aeson.hs b/src/Data/UUID/._Aeson.hs
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diff --git a/src/Data/UUID/Aeson.hs b/src/Data/UUID/Aeson.hs
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+module Data.UUID.Aeson where
+
+import Control.Applicative (pure)
+
+import Data.UUID (UUID, fromString)
+
+import Data.Aeson (ToJSON,FromJSON, toJSON, parseJSON) 
+import Data.Aeson.Types (Value(String), typeMismatch)
+
+import qualified Data.Text as T
+
+instance ToJSON UUID where
+  toJSON = String . T.pack . show
+
+instance FromJSON UUID where
+  parseJSON json@(String t) = 
+    let uuidString = T.unpack t
+    in case fromString uuidString of
+         Just uuid -> pure uuid 
+         Nothing   -> typeMismatch "UUID" json 
+  parseJSON unknown = typeMismatch "UUID" unknown
diff --git a/uuid-aeson.cabal b/uuid-aeson.cabal
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+-- Initial uuid-aeson.cabal generated by cabal init.  For further 
+-- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
+
+name:                uuid-aeson
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            Aeson types for UUID instances.
+description:         Instances of Aeson's ToJSON and FromJSON for UUIDs. 
+license:             BSD3
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Kirk Peterson
+maintainer:          necrobious@gmail.com
+-- copyright:           
+category:            Data
+build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >=1.8
+
+library
+  -- other-modules:       
+  hs-source-dirs:    src
+  exposed-modules:   Data.UUID.Aeson  
+  build-depends:     base >= 4 && < 5,
+                     text,  
+                     aeson, 
+                     uuid >= 1