The friendship layer at its true size, and the modern ledger's named gap

items 11 and 12 — sister cities; the federal count and the uncounted share

The friendship layer is empty, and prints at its true, small size: New Carlisle has no sister city — no signing, no partnership, and no entry in the Sister Cities International record or the town's own record reached for this section — and the leg prints the absence rather than leaving the layer unexamined; a town named for a Pennsylvania city it was never twinned with keeps its friendships informal, and none is documented. The modern ledger closes the leg with its want stated properly: the federal metro export series — the International Trade Administration's count for the South Bend–Mishawaka metro, with its year and figure — was not pulled for this run, and the item is banked as a named gap, settler that series. What can be stated without it is the discipline the floor requires: whatever figure that series carries, this town's share of it is uncounted — the federal count runs at metro and county grain, no town-level export figure exists, and the steel tonnage of the township's mills enters the world's markets inside its parents' books. The leg therefore ends where the grain article began: the exports are real, the ledger that would price them is named, and the town's share stands stated as uncounted rather than estimated.

Sources:

1. Sister Cities International's record and the town's record as reached for this section, November 2026 — no sister city returned.
2. The ITA metro export series named in the article as the modern ledger's settler — not pulled in this run; the uncounted-share statement printed on the record as it stands.