You know, you were exactly right – the leading on the carriage return was 1 point higher.
Since I have a paragraph style applied to the whole section, I didn’t think it possible to have the carriage return have it’s own thing going on. Nor did that line show the “+” sign indicating that there were overrides to the style.
This is something that has driven me crazy forever! I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out. THANK YOU.