I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do either, but I think the following awk script does what your examples seem to request.
With the following in the file named input:
the output produced is:
As always, if you're running on a Solaris/SunOS system, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk instead of awk.
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