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A Trade Between Friends

Bob and Alice are very close friends. Once they decided to go to a shop to buy strings for themselves. The strings available in the shop contain only lowercase Latin letters. Alice and Bob decided to buy strings of the same length $N$. They also wanted the strings to be equal. It is guaranteed that the shop has at least two strings of the length $N$. But it's not guaranteed that the shop has two

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