# Chapter 22 Counter-Strip Audit - Current Text

STRIP TEST 1 - remove all comedy: FAILS BY DESIGN. If "Just coffee means I buy the coffee" (line 137), "Keep doing the quiet version" (line 141), and "That's the other annoying thing about you" (line 153) are flattened, June loses the exact defensive warmth the reading guide requires. Comedy Doctor round 4 cleared the current distribution, so the answer is not further stripping.

STRIP TEST 2 - remove all direct terms: FAILS BY DESIGN. If "I'm staying, Theo. It isn't for you" (line 91), "It stays where it is. Faced in" (line 127), and "That happened because the terms are set. Not instead of them" (line 167) are made oblique, the consent/asymmetry contract becomes muddy. Plainness is required here.

STRIP TEST 3 - remove the object bookends: FAILS BY DESIGN. The dish at lines 3 and 177-179, the receipt at line 143, and the card at line 177 are not ornament; they carry June's decision state.

OVER-CORRECTION CHECK: CLEAN - The chapter has been stripped of polished thesis and generic captions, but not stripped past emotional legibility. Positive Prose round 3 returned `INHABITED`; Dialogue and Comedy are clean on current text.

Chapter verdict: COUNTER-STRIP-CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
