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-The state of these components is completely independent. Hooks are a way to reuse *stateful logic*, not state itself. In fact, each *call* to a Hook has a completely isolated state -- so you can even use the same custom Hook twice in one component.
+The state of each component is completely independent. Hooks are a way to reuse *stateful logic*, not state itself. In fact, each *call* to a Hook has a completely isolated state -- so you can even use the same custom Hook twice in one component.
 
 Custom Hooks are more of a convention than a feature. If a function's name starts with "`use`" and it calls other Hooks, we say it is a custom Hook. The `useSomething` naming convention is how our linter plugin is able to find bugs in the code using Hooks.