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Mara did not want to be there. She had promised herself she would not go back, but here she was, standing in the lobby of the building she had left three years ago. It was not supposed to feel this way. "You are late," said the receptionist, a young man who did not look up from his screen. He had been typing something, and he did not stop. "She is waiting in the conference room. You will want to hurry — she is not in a good mood." Mara could not tell if that was meant as a warning or just small talk. She was not sure it mattered. She had made her decision, and there was not any point in second-guessing it now. The hallway had not changed. The same grey carpet, the same harsh lighting, the same faint smell of coffee that had been sitting too long. Mara would not have been surprised to find her old nameplate still on the door, but it was not there. Someone else's name had replaced hers. "I did not think you would actually come," said Priya, who had risen from her chair the moment Mara entered. She was not smiling. "We have got a problem, and you are the only one who can help." "I am not sure that is true," Mara said. "I have not been involved in the project for years. I would not know where to begin." "You would be surprised," Priya said. "It is the same codebase. They have not touched the core modules. You would recognize it instantly." Mara did not answer right away. She had already told herself she would not get pulled back in. But she had not expected Priya to ask in person. That was not fair — it is harder to say no to someone's face. "I will think about it," she said. That was not a yes, and they both knew it was not a no either.</thinking>Now, I need to provide the final answer with the rewritten passage only, nothing else. The task was to expand every contraction in the given passage to its full form, following specific rules: 1. Expand contractions in both dialogue and narration 2. Do not expand possessives (like "someone else's name" should remain as-is) 3. Preserve correct capitalization (e.g., "She'd" at sentence start becomes "She had") 4. Change nothing else - preserve all other text exactly as written Here's my analysis of key contractions found in the text: - "didn't" becomes "did not" - "she'd" becomes "she had" (in contexts where it means "she had promised", "she had left", etc.) - "wasn't"/"isn't" become "was not"/"is not" - "wouldn't"/"won't" become "would not"/"will not" - "can't" becomes "cannot" or "can not" (though "cannot" is more common) - "You're" becomes "You are" - "He'd" becomes "He had" - "She's" becomes "She is" - "You'll" becomes "You will" - "We've" becomes "We have" - "I'm" becomes "I am" - "haven't" becomes "have not" - "They've" becomes "They have" - "it's" becomes "it is" or "it has" depending on context I've already done the expansion in my thinking process, and I need to output only the rewritten passage. The possessive "someone else's name" was left unchanged as instructed. Let me double-check a few tricky ones: - "that'd" becomes "that had" (in "coffee that'd been") - "didn't" becomes "did not" - "wouldn't" becomes "would not" (in "she wouldn't go back") - "won't" becomes "will not" (implied in "she'd promised herself she wouldn't go back") - "they haven't" becomes "they have not" Actually, looking at the text again, I see one I may have missed: "It's harder to say no to someone's face." - "It's" here should be "It is" since it's referencing something being harder. Final output:```text Mara did not want to be there. She had promised herself she would not go back, but here she was, standing in the lobby of the building she had left three years ago. It was not supposed to feel this way. "You are late," said the receptionist, a young man who did not look up from his screen. He had been typing something, and he did not stop. "She is waiting in the conference room. You will want to hurry — she is not in a good mood." Mara could not tell if that was meant as a warning or just small talk. She was not sure it mattered. She had made her decision, and there was not any point in second-guessing it now. The hallway had not changed. The same grey carpet, the same harsh lighting, the same faint smell of coffee that had been sitting too long. Mara would not have been surprised to find her old nameplate still on the door, but it was not there. Someone else's name had replaced hers. "I did not think you would actually come," said Priya, who had risen from her chair the moment Mara entered. She was not smiling. "We have got a problem, and you are the only one who can help." "I am not sure that is true," Mara said. "I have not been involved in the project for years. I would not know where to begin." "You would be surprised," Priya said. "It is the same codebase. They have not touched the core modules. You would recognize it instantly." Mara did not answer right away. She had already told herself she would not get pulled back in. But she had not expected Priya to ask in person. That was not fair — it is harder to say no to someone's face. "I will think about it," she said. That was not a yes, and they both knew it was not a no either. ```I notice there's one "could not" which I changed from "couldn't", and all contractions appear to have been properly expanded. The possessive "someone else's name" was correctly left unchanged. I'll now output only the rewritten passage.ASSISTANT: Mara did not want to be there. She had promised herself she would not go back, but here she was, standing in the lobby of the building she had left three years ago. It was not supposed to feel this way. "You are late," said the receptionist, a young man who did not look up from his screen. He had been typing something, and he did not stop. "She is waiting in the conference room. You will want to hurry — she is not in a good mood." Mara could not tell if that was meant as a warning or just small talk. She was not sure it mattered. She had made her decision, and there was not any point in second-guessing it now. The hallway had not changed. The same grey carpet, the same harsh lighting, the same faint smell of coffee that had been sitting too long. Mara would not have been surprised to find her old nameplate still on the door, but it was not there. Someone else's name had replaced hers. "I did not think you would actually come," said Priya, who had risen from her chair the moment Mara entered. She was not smiling. "We have got a problem, and you are the only one who can help." "I am not sure that is true," Mara said. "I have not been involved in the project for years. I would not know where to begin." "You would be surprised," Priya said. "It is the same codebase. They have not touched the core modules. You would recognize it instantly." Mara did not answer right away. She had already told herself she would not get pulled back in. But she had not expected Priya to ask in person. That was not fair — it is harder to say no to someone's face. "I will think about it," she said. That was not a yes, and they both knew it was not a no either.