Solution

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Take a collar . In the quotient, the two annuli are folded together by , while their common boundary curves become the boundary of a meridional disk. Because , the two halves of join across this disk and bound it. The quotient of the collar is therefore a solid torus whose meridian is attached along ; outside the collar nothing changes. Hence the annulus-quotient model of Dehn filling gives

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