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@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ state, err := container.State()
 #### Checkpoint & Restore
 
 libcontainer now integrates [CRIU](http://criu.org/) for checkpointing and restoring containers.
-This let's you save the state of a process running inside a container to disk, and then restore
+This lets you save the state of a process running inside a container to disk, and then restore
 that state into a new process, on the same machine or on another machine.
 
 `criu` version 1.5.2 or higher is required to use checkpoint and restore.