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Sneak in a little note about dereferencing

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Fixes #648
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Carol (Nichols || Goulding)
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@@ -596,6 +596,11 @@ without taking ownership of it. Figure 4-5 shows a diagram.
Figure 4-5: `&String s` pointing at `String s1`
> Note: The opposite of referencing by using `&` is *dereferencing*, which is
> accomplished with the dereference operator, `*`. We’ll see some uses of the
> dereference operator in Chapter 8 and discuss details of dereferencing in
> Chapter 15.
Let’s take a closer look at the function call here:
```

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@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ without taking ownership of it. Figure 4-5 shows a diagram.
<span class="caption">Figure 4-5: `&String s` pointing at `String s1`</span>
> Note: The opposite of referencing by using `&` is *dereferencing*, which is
> accomplished with the dereference operator, `*`. We’ll see some uses of the
> dereference operator in Chapter 8 and discuss details of dereferencing in
> Chapter 15.
Let’s take a closer look at the function call here:
```rust