it worked! in only about 10 minutes after resending the transaction with a txfee of .0006, it made it to my new wallet. that's only about 161 satoshis a byte, far below the 960 recommended by bitcoinfees.earn.com.
it pays to not panic. 6 percent fee on a transfer is already pretty steep.
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