diff --git a/second-edition/src/ch02-00-guessing-game-tutorial.md b/second-edition/src/ch02-00-guessing-game-tutorial.md
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@@ -770,8 +770,9 @@ user must press the enter key to satisfy
`read_line`. When the user presses enter, a
newline character is added to the string. For example, if the user types 5 and presses enter,
-`guess` looks like this: `5\n`. The `\n` represents “newline,” the enter key.
-The `trim` method eliminates `\n`, resulting in just `5`.
+`guess` looks like this: `5\n`. The `\n` represents “newline,” the
+enterkey. The `trim` method eliminates `\n`,
+resulting in just `5`.
The [`parse` method on strings][parse] parses a string into some
kind of number. Because this method can parse a variety of number types, we