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Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array II

Given a sorted array containing duplicates, modify the array in-place such that each unique element can appear at most twice. Return the new length of the modified array. Note that you must do this in-place and not allocate extra space for another array. Example: Input: 1 1 1 2 2 3 Output: 5

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