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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 _read_message(self):
 """ Reads a single size-annotated message from the server """

    size = int(self.buf.read_line().decode("utf-8"))
    return self.buf.read(size).decode("utf-8")