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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 load_preprocess_images(image_paths: List[str], image_size: tuple) -> List[np.ndarray]: """ Load and pre-process the images specified with absolute paths. :param image_paths: List of images specified with paths. :param image_size: Tuple to resize the image to (Channels, Height, Width) :return: A list of loaded images (numpy arrays). """

    image_size = image_size[1:]  # we do not need the number of channels
    images = []
    for image_path in image_paths:
        images.append(load_preprocess_image(image_path, image_size))
    return images