when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

[Dr. Hawkins]

I'm sending a message to a field on another card to add my formatted values.

But while in that field, the handler can't find it!

      put the long name of the target
                field blah group blah . . .
      put the id of the target
                  it has one
      put the long id of the target
                   and this to
      put exists(fld the long name of the target)
                   false

false?  The field is the target; how can it not exist?  (and i do
indeed throw the "no such" error when I try to put something into
"field the target"

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