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The original image is never altered, all Elements is doing is appending the raw image with instructions either in the database or the xmp file so that it can be displayed with the setting you used on the raw image, the image itself is not altered.
For arguments sake without those instructions if you wished to return to the raw image later on and develop it the same way as before, without those instructions you would have to rely on memory do it all again exactly the same.
You can reset the raw image back to how it was in the raw developer but then you would lose all your raw edits.
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