Append a line of text after a line matching a pattern

Let's say we've got:

$ cat file.txt 
blah
blah blah
append after me
blah bleh!
append after me
blah blah blah
bleeeh

This will add "new stuff" after every line that says "append after me":

$ sed -i '/append after me/a new stuff' file.txt 

Bingo:

$ cat file.txt 
blah
blah blah
append after me
new stuff
blah bleh!
append after me
new stuff
blah blah blah
bleeeh

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