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Find Adjacent Duplicates

Write a function that reads a list of strings from input, and returns a new list containing only the strings that have adjacent duplicates. Each input string is separated by a newline. The output should be a list of strings with duplicates side by side in the original order. Example input: 'apple\napple\nbanana\ncherry\ncherry\npeach' --> Output: ['apple', 'cherry']

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