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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 make_date(dt, date_parser=parse_date):
 """Coerce a datetime or string into datetime.date object Arguments: dt (str or datetime.datetime or atetime.time or numpy.Timestamp):
 time or date to be coerced into a `datetime.time` object Returns: datetime.time: Time of day portion of a `datetime` string or object datetime.date(1970, 1, 1) datetime.date(1970, 1, 1) True datetime.date(1999, 12, 31) """

    if not dt:
        return datetime.date(1970, 1, 1)
    if isinstance(dt, basestring):
        dt = date_parser(dt)
    try:
        dt = dt.timetuple()[:3]
    except:
        dt = tuple(dt)[:3]
    return datetime.date(*dt)