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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_string(self, value):
 """String gets serialized and deserialized without quote marks."""

        if isinstance(value, six.binary_type):
            value = value.decode('utf-8')
        return self.to_json(value)