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DeletableAccounts: clarify re-creating accounts

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@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ To be deleted, an account must meet the following requirements:
- The account must own fewer than 1000 objects in the ledger.
- The [AccountDelete transaction][] must pay a special [transaction cost][] equal to at least the [owner reserve](reserves.html) for one item (currently 5 XRP).
After an account has been deleted, it can be re-created in the ledger through the normal method of [creating accounts](#creating-accounts). An account that has been deleted and re-created is no different than an account that has been created for the first time.
Unlike Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies, each new version of the XRP Ledger's public ledger chain contains the full state of the ledger, which increases in size with each new account. For that reason, you should not create new XRP Ledger accounts unless necessary. You can recover some of an account's 20 XRP [reserve](reserves.html) by deleting the account, but you must still destroy at least 5 XRP to do so.
Institutions who send and receive value on behalf of many users can use [**Source Tags** and **Destination Tags**](become-an-xrp-ledger-gateway.html#source-and-destination-tags) to distinguish payments from and to their customers while only using one (or a handful) of accounts in the XRP Ledger.