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 Note that Alice makes **no guarantees** for
 how one or another piece of  middleware will behave.
-It does not execute all handlers sequentially
-but wraps them in one another.
-If a piece of middleware were to stop the chain,
+It executes all middleware sequentially so that if a
+piece of middleware were to stop the chain,
 the request will not reach the inner handlers.
 This is intentional behavior.