diff --git a/controllers/guidance_ctrl/Lib/guidance/library/_gen.py b/controllers/guidance_ctrl/Lib/guidance/library/_gen.py
index 2f9b3c39..11ec793c 100644
--- a/controllers/guidance_ctrl/Lib/guidance/library/_gen.py
+++ b/controllers/guidance_ctrl/Lib/guidance/library/_gen.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def gen(lm, name=None, *, max_tokens=1000, list_append=False, regex=None,
     Parameters
         ----------
         name : str or None
-            If this is not None then the the results of the generation will be saved as a variable on
+            If this is not None then the results of the generation will be saved as a variable on
             the Model object (so you can access the result as `lm["var_name"]`).
 
         max_tokens : int
@@ -236,4 +236,4 @@ def will_gen(lm, stop=None, stop_regex=None, ignore_spaces=False, max_tokens=30)
 
 @guidance
 def call_tool(lm, tool):
-    return lm + tool.call_grammar + tool.tool_call()
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+    return lm + tool.call_grammar + tool.tool_call()