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Manipulative Strings

Problem description. Chef has a string of lowercase English letters. Each letter that appears in the string appears exactly twice. Chef now wants to remove one half of his string. More precisely, he wants to remove one of the two copies of each letter in his string. The order of the letters he does not remove will remain unchanged. If there are multiple ways to remove the letters, Chef prefers t

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