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Without boats, dreams dry up

Introducing UnpinCell, a new cell type in Rust that unpins the contained object, offering a simpler way to handle mutable access through pinned references. This resolves unsoundness with Drop by ensuring pinned references can project as long as specific criteria are met. UnpinCell provides a barrier making objects inside never witnessed as pinned, improving on the previous pinned fields design.