I'll sneak in some code for the situation your saves are in and hopefully that will work!
Hi I just wanted to check if your hotfix is applied to the latest version on itch (v 0.08), as I can see your comment here saying it's hotfixed as of just a few weeks ago, but the latest itch.io file says its 84 days old. I ran into the same issue with Maggie before when I tried it a couple months ago, so am looking forward to trying the bugfix. And thanks for your work!
I lost my saves so went through it again and it looks to be working with the latest itch.io file, if you're still wondering! Although I did get stuck again at one point with same issue, reloading a little earlier (like at the start of a new corruption level) and playing through it again allowed me to progress through.