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 global variable). Conversely, when acquiring the lock and restoring the thread
 state, the lock must be acquired before storing the thread state pointer.
 
-Why am I going on with so much detail about this?  Because when threads are
-created from C, they don't have the global interpreter lock, nor is there a
-thread state data structure for them.  Such threads must bootstrap themselves
-into existence, by first creating a thread state data structure, then acquiring
-the lock, and finally storing their thread state pointer, before they can start
-using the Python/C API.  When they are done, they should reset the thread state
-pointer, release the lock, and finally free their thread state data structure.
+It is important to note that when threads are created from C, they don't have
+the global interpreter lock, nor is there a thread state data structure for
+them.  Such threads must bootstrap themselves into existence, by first
+creating a thread state data structure, then acquiring the lock, and finally
+storing their thread state pointer, before they can start using the Python/C
+API.  When they are done, they should reset the thread state pointer, release
+the lock, and finally free their thread state data structure.
 
 Beginning with version 2.3, threads can now take advantage of the
 :cfunc:`PyGILState_\*` functions to do all of the above automatically.  The