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 <p>
 One place this situation arises is when it is necessary to guarantee within the package implementing the type that
-it it actually satisfies the interface.
+it actually satisfies the interface.
 If a type—for example,
 <code><a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#RawMessage">json.RawMessage</a></code>—needs
 a custom its JSON representation, it should implement