... a copy is made of the removed object token, with the same value, and this is immediately placed back onto the DataStoreNode. Thus, the values held by a DataStoreNode appear to persist for the duration of each execution of its containing activity, even

... a copy is made of the removed object token, with the same value, and this is immediately placed back onto the DataStoreNode. Thus, the values held by a DataStoreNode appear to persist for the duration of each execution of its containing activity, even as tokens move downstream from the node.