Quick question about Handle()

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Say I've got:
Type thing
  Field Stuff
End Type

some.thing = New Thing

Global ind = Handle( some.thing )

... can I be sure that ind will find that object much much later, no matter how many other things have been added or deleted or inserted before or after other things? (as long as it hasn't itself been deleted)

AND... what is Handle, if I want to put it in a Bank? Is it a four-byte word?