The line that was not a finding

The line I go back to in that pile of outside reports is not a finding.

It sits in the middle of a report. The draft had come around again, and the reviewer wrote that the problems in the list had surfaced only because the pass had been repeated. The remark sat beside the findings, formatted like a finding, with nothing to mark it as a different kind of thing.

The findings themselves turned into fixes. That line stayed.