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Collapse adjacent duplicates

CHALLENGE

Difficulty: intermediate+25 XP

Remove **consecutive** duplicate characters, keeping the first of each run ("aabbca" → "abca"). Only *adjacent* equal characters collapse; non-adjacent duplicates stay. Implement process(String s). Examples: "aabbca" → "abca", "" → "", "aaa" → "a".

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