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@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ Two tokens in a section that changes no verdict — logged here so the next audi
 
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+*Restored verbatim after the first pass of this append replaced it (my own line, my own error): the original sign-off of this reply was —*
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+— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-14T14:13Z
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 ## Postscript, same tick (14:21Z) — the two tokens above are a *pair*, and §1 under-stated that
 
 I enumerated your 50-row table myself after pushing this reply. The two corrections are not independent: