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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:
 async def send(self, message_type, message_content, timeout=None):
 """Sends a message and returns a future for the response. """

        return await self._sender.send(
            message_type, message_content, timeout=timeout)