Solution

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In the outer expansion, omit to get . Integrating and imposing the left boundary condition gives
This is regular throughout . Its right-end value is , generally different from zero.
At set . The equation is , so the leading inner expansion is . Matching as gives , while gives . Thus
The common part is . Subtract it once when forming the additive composite expansion:
There is one generic boundary layer, at the right endpoint, of width . A left-end exponential would grow into the interval and cannot supply a decaying matching correction. At the displayed layer amplitude vanishes; the leading outer solution already meets the right condition, though a smaller correction can still be needed at higher order. The composite meets exactly and up to an exponentially small term.

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