Given a question, generate a paraphrase of that question wihout changing the meaning of it. Your answer should reword the given sentence, but not add information to it or remove information from it. The answer to your question should be the same as the answer to the original question.

Q: Question: what is the longest river in the us?

A: what is longest river in the us?
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Q: Question: who built the merlion statue in singapore?

A: who created the merlion?
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Q: Question: who was the first female governor of washington state?

A:
who was the first female governor of the state of washington?
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