How to link to part of the same document in Markdown?

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I am writing a large Markdown document and would like to place a table of contents of sorts at the beginning that will provide links to various locations in the document. How can I do this?

I tried using

[a link](# MyTitle)

where MyTitle is a title within the document and this didn't work.

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