# Conversation-Variety Audit - Chapter 18

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- `VARIED — group chat` — Sam/Ruth flyer correction, Mara invitation, and dinner photo function as ambient pressure, not exposition.
- `VARIED — Asha texts` — practical work-clock exchange; no emotional subtext laundering.
- `VARIED — Mara texts` — confessed scarf strategy and Sonia's logistics differ from in-person food handoff.
- `VARIED — Sunday dialogue` — welfare question, food instruction, Tuesday invitation, interrupted goodbye, and exit logistics each do different work.
- `RISK-CLEARED — no recurring clever volley` — June's clipped refusals are not mirrored by Mara; Dialogue Doctor round 4 verified monotone/Q&A clean after attribution repair.

Chapter verdict: `CONVERSATION-VARIETY-HOLDS`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
