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You might still want to write that one down somewhere and store it somewhere safe (and probably hard to get to). A friend of mine recently forgot his PIN. A four-number code used regularly for over ten years. Just gone like that.

Your memory is a SPOF, and while generally robust for this sort of thing, it's not bulletproof.

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