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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 to_dict(self):
 """Return description of self in dict format. This is useful for serializing to something like json later. """

        jdict = {
            'user': self.user,
            'summary': self.summary,
            'body': self.body,
            'markup': self.markup,
            'url': self.url,
            'timestamp': self.timestamp
            }
        return jdict