After reading Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics more carefully, I realized that a variable declared with my isn't in the current package. For example, in a simple script with no modules if I declare my $var = "hello" $main::var still doesn't have a value.
As you found out, when you use my, you are creating a locally scoped non-package variable. To create a package variable, you use our and not my.
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