Unidentified Wire

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    Can anyone help identify this wire? Sometime while fooling around in the dash, pulling out the a/c control to ship off for repair, or yanking out the unused seatbelt harness, or wiring in the new gauges, etc, we've pulled this wire out of a connector somewhere, I think. Behind the a/c & cluster. It's possible it was just floating around in there. But it looks like it was pulled out of a connector somewhere but I can't see where one is missing yet. It's a black wire and goes to a little connector where a black wire and a blue wire with red trace come out. Any suggestions?

    1st shot is the black wire with the connector hanging out next to the a/c wiring harness. 2nd shot is a probably unhelpful label on the wire. 3rd shot shows the black wire going to a large black connector where the other two wires connect.
     

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    If we are looking at the fat black wire it is the fiber optic wire that goes to the wiper switch. The end of the wire just sticks into the plastic bezel
     
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    The wire plugs into the plastic bezel above the electrical connection to light up the "WIPE/WASH" letters
     
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    You are awesome, man. Thank you!
     

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