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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def subject(self):
 """ Normalized subject. Only used for debugging and human-friendly logging. """

        # Fetch subject from first message.
        subject = self.message.get('Subject', '')
        subject, _ = re.subn(r'\s+', ' ', subject)
        return subject