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Visceral: +25. Self-reclamation, asking to be met.

A woman who spent years erasing herself for people who left narrates her arrival at her own worth, and from that footing asks a partner to stay constant through her worst stretches, offering full devotion in return. The arc runs from self-abandonment to self-possession to a conditional invitation.

Route: internal_work. The case for height rests on the narrator's own processing, letting-go, and self-acceptance; there is no collective condition named and no advocacy toward the world. REQUIRED CHECK, TRANSFORMATION. Opening posture (verse 1): she reports having learned to present composure while deteriorating privately, having overspent affection on people who did not stay, and having treated pain as though it were hers by right. Closing posture (verses 2 and 3): she reports having stopped contracting herself to keep anyone, having released the need for outside approval, having reconciled with the younger self who pleaded for permanence, and having stopped requiring rescue. The shift: from self-erasure to self-possession, stated in the first person as accomplished, with the specific behaviour that changed named (she no longer shrinks, and she lets leavers leave). - Inward subjunctive sub-test: PASSES. The change is carried by present and past indicatives, not by wish or conditional constructions. She does not say she would like to know her worth; she says she does. - Outward wish sub-test: FLAGS. The hook is a stack of imperatives aimed at another person: stay, love me, be my calm, be my home. Per R9 movement cannot be demanded of the other party, and this demand is the song's most repeated structure. The outro compounds it by making her side of the offer conditional on his proving himself first. Counts as a real flag. - Aesthetic-markers sub-test: PASSES. The elevation argument does not rest on imagery or dignified resignation; concrete changes in behaviour and stance are cited in the verses. One flag of three, so no cap to the Decent band. The flag weighs against the top of the placement, and so does verse 3's stock strength-of-women claim, which is asserted rather than earned (green-10 register inside an otherwise earned arc). TWO-AXIS READ.

Nothing gradeable can be quoted. R16 governs the two lines that could be misread. Her comparative claim about the quality of her own love and her refusal to settle for a partial version are self-worth recovered after erasure, not orange-5 ego-service: no other person is diminished, no target is named, nothing is objectified, no intoxication is celebrated, and no contempt is aimed anywhere. Her line about closed doors is a boundary drawn, not a put-down delivered. The in-group phrasing about women like her is an identity claim of survivorship, and R8 does not reach it because no systemic dysfunction is being claimed as home. Harm: 0. Pervasiveness: none.

blue-10 fires with citation (she lets go of the compulsion to shrink and of the need to hold anyone in place). blue-3 fires (acceptance of a hard truth about what her past cost her, not merely naming it). blue-8 fires (genuine self-examination without self-pity, including toward the earlier self she now treats with kindness). blue-11 fires weakly on that same self-directed compassion. Violet does not activate: the address is one-to-one throughout, no collective condition is named, and the survivorship framing is a personal identity claim rather than a witness on behalf of a people. Transcendence: 30.

The single oath in the outro is casual idiom, explicitly listed as non-firing, with no framework proclaimed or asserted as normative. The flag does not fire.

Governing axis is transcendence (harm is zero). Sits between +25-gratitude and +30. Stronger than +25-gratitude, because the movement is narrated inside the song rather than credited to something that happened before it, and the letting-go is specific. Weaker than +30, because that placement's agency sits cleanly with the addressee while this song's most repeated structure is a demand made of the addressee, and because verse 3 leans on asserted strength language. Precedents: +25-gratitude, +30. Center: +28.

- Saturation: +1. Self-reclamation fires across every verse and the hook. - Resolution: -1. Closing offer is made conditional on the partner first. - Register: -1. Stock self-empowerment vocabulary in the third verse. - Reach: 0. Intimate and personal, matching both placements.

Scanned for any discrete Degraded or Corrupted passage: no substance promotion, no objectification, no materialism or flex payload, no cruelty, no contempt aimed at a target, no tossed-off betrayal. Contamination: none.

Elevated territory, between +25-gratitude and +30, because the dominant arc is a narrated recovery of self-worth with specific letting-go on the page, from which the request for a constant partner is made.

Reconciliation: aligned.

Elevated territory, between +25-gratitude and +30, because the dominant arc is a narrated recovery of self-worth with specific letting-go on the page, from which the request for a constant partner is made.