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>Do you or don't you think that you've created a second, independent distinct instance of the object?
>It's a yes or no question.
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>No.
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>As you can think this is a mystery.

OK. What I'm saying here, Fabio, is that because you have two instances pointing to the same memory space, just because you release or set the first instance to NULL doesn't mean that the PEMs of the other are automatically set the same way. IOW, if an event like Destroy occurs in one doesn't mean that the same thing happens to the second instance. You've only released or destroyed the one variable, not both. This is why you're seeing this problem. It's often referred to as a dangling object reference.

>George, you can read my today message to Mike ?

Which message number?