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It is a pleasure to acknowledge our debt of influence to David Ayala, both for the generalities as well as for various specific observations that appear throughout this note. We are also deeply grateful to Piotr Pstragowski for his suggested outline of the proof of Theorem 3.3, and to Zhen Lin Low for countless conversations regarding the ideas that appear here. Finally, we would like to thank Montana State University for its hospitality as well as UC Berkeley’s Geometry and Topology RTG grant (which is part of NSF grant DMS-0838703) for its generous funding of our stay there (during which this note was written).