Understanding why a limit proof using another limit works

You're using the fact that $x_n \rightarrow x$ in the very first step: that's how you know that you can make $|x_n - x|$ arbitrarily small. And you need to be able to make that difference arbitrarily small for the rest of the proof to work.

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