Clone stamp tool blurs frame edge

I'm a newbie on After Effects, so please bear with me.
I'm trying to remove an electric wire that extends through frame, bisecting the bottom of frame and right edge. I'm using the clone stamp tool with "0" hardness and a 150pt brush, and the results are perfect. However, I have a problem I can't resolve. Because the wire extends "off frame", I start below frame with my brush and drag across the frame and off the right edge. The bottom is clean - but the right edge is "blurred" and no longer a straight edge.
Upon updating to Premiere Pro, the new comp shares that crooked edge.
How can I fully remove the wire and keep my nice straight frame edge?
Thank you.

After Effects CC updated. Here are screen shots. The shot is a body falling through frame. The camera pans, and in doing so reveals the wire. I had to "paint" the wire out frame by frame. This is the last frame (the body already gone). If you look on the right frame edge, above the midpoint, you can see where the frame "bulges" and "blurs". When the shot plays, as the cloned footage "travels" through frame, the "bulge" moves from bottom up along the edge. It's very noticeable. Oddly, there isn't the same issue with the bottom of frame - although I dragged with the clone stamp tool through that edge as well:
Before
After

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