On Christmas eve the 102 mBTC transaction went through and is appearing in the electrum wallet. I do not know how it went through when the blockchain system was waiting on a fee of 441.1954 mBTC but it went through.
Can someone explain how it was cleared up or who could have cleared it up? Whoever it was THANK YOU. That was a nice Christmas gift.
You're totally misunderstanding what the CPFP dialog was telling you... the blockchain system was NOT waiting on a fee of 441.1954 mBTC for your transaction to be processed. The CPFP dialog that said "fee required = 441.1954 mBTC" was just telling you that if you wanted to attempt a CPFP to give your stuck transaction
"priority" a better chance of being included in a block, you should send the CPFP transaction with a fee of 441.1954 mBTC.
However, your original transaction was just sitting there in the mempool, waiting for a miner to pick it up an put it in a block. There was nothing stopping it from being picked up, just the odds of that happening were relatively low because of the low fee.
As for HOW your transaction got picked up with the low fee... as I've theorised, given the "LARGE" number of bytes that this transaction seemed to be, it was probably a "PayToMany" transaction... it is possible someone else either paid for it to be accelerated by an acceleration service, or THEY paid a large 441.1954 type fee to do a CPFP etc. and that is how the transaction got confirmed.
But, as always, without transactionIDs to work with... this is all speculation.