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awk;sed appending line to previous line....
I know this has been asked before but I just can't parse the syntax as explained. I have a set of files that has user information spread out over two lines that I wish to merge into one:

User1NameLast User1NameFirst User1Address
E-Mail:User1email
User2NameLast User2NameFirst User2Address
E-Mail:User2email
User3NameLast User3NameFirst User3Address
E-Mail:User3email
User4NameLast User4NameFirst User4Address
E-Mail:User4email

In English what I am looking for is each line that begins with the word "E-Mail" to be appended to the previous line so that all of the data for each user looks like this:

User1NameLast User1NameFirst User1Address E-Mail:User1email
User2NameLast User2NameFirst User2Address E-Mail:User2email
User3NameLast User3NameFirst User3Address E-Mail:User3email
User4NameLast User4NameFirst User4Address E-Mail:User4email

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