Ten years ago, highly-excited states were found in 9 Li and 10 Be a few hundred kilovolts above the proton decay threshold. These physical states are too low in energy to be the isospin-stretched configuration of the decay channel (the isobaric analog or T>). However these states can be understoond by a continuum cognizant shell model as strongly mixed states of lower-isospin (T<) where the mixing is largely mediated by the open neutron channels but ushered in energy to be just above the proton threshold.