x3 - text doesn't line up in two side-by-side frames

- two side-by-side text frames

- each with 9 pt Arial text

- each with about 20 individual lines of text

- each line starts with pasted in bullet character - then a space - then a few words - then a return

- fyi - we didn't use the bullet tool because we wanted no indents

- we aligned the top of the two text frames using Arrange / Align and Distribute / Align Top

- as you look down the two text frames the lines are aligned side-by-side

- we looked at non-printing characters in the two text frames to be sure each line ended in a return... no problem there.

Now what? We are stumped.

Thanks for any help.