For some reason we get errors when we try to remove a non-existent state
file. There's a slight possibility that it could be a bug we're working
around, but it's not clear that this is the case, and I think it's
possible that a state file could have gotten nuked by the user somehow,
although this was occurring "naturally" when running reverse1.mcl so
let's keep that working for now.
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