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<para>
Our final dilemma is this: when can we actually destroy the
removed element? Remember, a reader might be stepping through
- this element in the list right now: it we free this element and
+ this element in the list right now: if we free this element and
the <symbol>next</symbol> pointer changes, the reader will jump
off into garbage and crash. We need to wait until we know that
all the readers who were traversing the list when we deleted the