#2483: Linked List Interview Problem

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[Cueball is writing on a whiteboard with a blue pen with Ponytail looking over his shoulder. The text on the board is unreadable, but it is is written in blue above them. It is a piece of code and it reads:]

   define traverseLinkedList(headPointer):
      myId="<illegible scribbling>"
      authToken="<illegible>"
      museumAddress="<illegible>@<illegible>.<illegible>"
      client=mailRestClient(myID, authToken)
      client.messages.send(to=museumAddress,
      subj="Item donation?", body="Thought you
      might be interested: "+str(headPointer))
      return

Ponytail: Hey.

[Caption beneath the panel:]

Coding interview tip: Interviewers get really mad when you try to donate their linked lists to a technology museum.

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:I'd traverse it myself, but it's singly linked, so I'm worried that I won't be able to find my way back to 2021.

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