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.
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Question: and for the f ; i'rst time in my life , i 'm afraid .

Answer: and for the first time in my life , i 'm scared .

Question: if this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup .

Answer: if the problem persists , refresh the database from the backup copy .

Question: that little episode we had earlier ... would you have really shot me ? ''

Answer:
the little incident we had before , would you really shoot me ? '