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A lightweight Deferred implementation, on top of Promises/A+

## Examples
```js
var Deferred = require('promise-deferred');

var deferred = new Deferred();

// set up handlers
deferred.promise.then(function (value) {}, function (error) {});

// resolve
deferred.resolve('a value');

// reject
deferred.reject(new Error('oh noes'));
```

## Tests
Simply clone the repo, `npm install`, and run `npm test`

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