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This is a paraphrasing task. In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence which express same meaning as the input using different words.

december 12 , 1973 he made out a christmas list the night before ( drunk ) and was now downtown filling an abridged version .
Output:
on december 12 , 1973 , he ( drunk ) made a list of christmas presents and was now in town and worked on his shortened version .