Fixing Drop Shadow, create its own lines

Hi everyone, Been playing with illustrator all day and its been a blast. Im trying to put a drop shadow on this, however, theres a huge line that I can seem to get rid of that cuts through from the M to the F. (please refer to the pic). I know its not an anchor point or anything, but how the hell do i get rid of this? its driving me nuts! THANKS!
-Jonny

it looks like the MF is formed of a single open path and that path has a white fill. if a path is open, the fill will just cut straight between the endpoints of the path. select it and give it a fill of 'none' (the red slash box below the stroke/fill tools). since that's also the fill on the bottom of the F, you'll see through that too.

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