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name: body-with-hr
description: Body containing Markdown `---` horizontal rules does not confuse the closing-fence scan. Use to validate §02-1.1 step 6.
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# Body with horizontal rules

The first `---` line below this paragraph is a Markdown horizontal rule, not a frontmatter close — the closing fence has already been consumed.

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This paragraph follows the first horizontal rule.

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And another rule. A naive backwards scan would mistake one of these for the closing frontmatter fence; §02-1.1 step 6 forbids that strategy.