Disappearing line in illustrator

Hiya,
I have inserted a psd file image into my illustrator document which I am creating and when I save it as a PDF one of the lines doesn't appear correctly. The line is still there but it is really faint. Do you know why this is? I am new to illustrator!
Thank you.

I am saving it as a low res pdf because it needs to be a small file size for an e-blast. I just tried saving it as a high res and the line came back so obviously this was why it was not there! Guessing there is no way to keep it as a small size pdf and achieve the look I want then?

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