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diff --git a/lib/mdx.ts b/lib/mdx.ts
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+import { serialize } from "next-mdx-remote/serialize";
+import path from "path";
+import fs from "fs";
+import remarkGfm from "remark-gfm";
+
+export interface Content<TMetadata = { [key: string]: any }> {
+  metadata: TMetadata;
+  content: string;
+}
+
+export type MaybeContent<TMetadata> = Content<TMetadata> | undefined;
+
+export async function getMdxContent<TMetadata>(
+  ...paths: string[]
+): Promise<MaybeContent<TMetadata>> {
+  const contentPath = path.join(process.cwd(), "content", ...paths);
+
+  if (!fs.existsSync(contentPath)) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const content = fs.readFileSync(contentPath, "utf-8");
+
+  const source = await serialize(content, {
+    parseFrontmatter: true,
+    mdxOptions: {
+      remarkPlugins: [remarkGfm],
+      development: false,
+    },
+  });
+
+
+  const footnotes =  /_jsx\(_components.h2, {.*?children: "Footnotes".*?}\), "\\n", /gs;
+  const hr = ``
+  const compiledSource = source.compiledSource.replace(footnotes, hr);
+
+  return{
+    metadata: source.frontmatter as TMetadata,
+    content: compiledSource,
+  }
+  
+}