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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 _encode_dict_as_string(value):
 """Takes the PLIST string of a dict, and returns the same string encoded such that it can be included in the string representation of a GSNode."""

        # Strip the first and last newlines
        if value.startswith("{\n"):
            value = "{" + value[2:]
        if value.endswith("\n}"):
            value = value[:-2] + "}"
        # escape double quotes and newlines
        return value.replace('"', '\\"').replace("\\n", "\\\\n").replace("\n", "\\n")