Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

Input: Consider Input: "If it were not for the services they provide us, the older persons would not be able to get around to do our business, such as visits to doctors, grocery and drug stores."

Output: "If it were not for their services, us elderly would not be able to get around to visit doctors, grocery stores and drug stores."

Input: Consider Input: 1996 is off to a fast start! And as March begins, we wanted to remind you to consider your contribution to the 1996 Annual Appeal.

Output: 1996 is off to a fast start! We want to remind you to consider your contribution.

Input: Consider Input: The American nation, as it existed in 1863, was a nation in the European sense. The assumption that drove the movements of national unification on the continent was that each nation should be able to govern itself.
Output: The American nation was a nation in the European sense. The assumption that drove the movements of national unification on the continenT.