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Add quotes to ansible playbook

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Start file

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
    ssh_state: True
  tasks:
    - name: Manage openssh
      package:
        name: openssh
        state: {{ ssh_state }}

End file

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
    ssh_state: True
  tasks:
    - name: Manage openssh
      package:
        name: openssh
        state: "{{ ssh_state }}"

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<         state: {{ ssh_state }}
---
>         state: "{{ ssh_state }}"

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