How do you make two non touching squares while only moving 8 sticks in a 24 matchstick game?

Remove all of the inside sticks... Try this (and please ignore the dots... I couldn't get it to space properly without them): ___ ___ ___

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___ ___ ___ if you take out the 8 lines along the inside track: which makes two squares that don't touch each other.