Closing Audit Prompt for Stronger Endings

Here is my completed draft: [paste full piece]. Run a closing audit. Tell me: Does the final paragraph land on something the reader didn't have when they started or does it restate what they already read? Is there a sentence anywhere in the piece that is doing the work the final paragraph should be doing and doing it earlier? What is the single most surprising thing in this piece? Is it in the first 150 words or buried somewhere the reader might not reach? What would Hemingway cut from this draft without asking permission? Return the answers. Then give me one alternative final sentence that closes harder than the one I wrote.