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Adjacency Love

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An array is called *lovely* if the sum of product of each adjacent pair of elements is odd. More formally, the array $S$ of size $M$ is lovely if the value $\sum_{i=1}^{M-1}$ $(S_i . S_{i+1})$ is **odd**. You are given an array $A$ consisting of $N$ positive integers. Find a [permutation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation#Permutations_of_multisets) of array $A$ which is *lovely*. If mu

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