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1328\. Break a Palindrome

Medium

Given a palindromic string of lowercase English letters `palindrome`, replace **exactly one** character with any lowercase English letter so that the resulting string is **not** a palindrome and that it is the **lexicographically smallest** one possible.

Return _the resulting string. If there is no way to replace a character to make it not a palindrome, return an **empty string**._

A string `a` is lexicographically smaller than a string `b` (of the same length) if in the first position where `a` and `b` differ, `a` has a character strictly smaller than the corresponding character in `b`. For example, `"abcc"` is lexicographically smaller than `"abcd"` because the first position they differ is at the fourth character, and `'c'` is smaller than `'d'`.

**Example 1:**

**Input:** palindrome = "abccba"

**Output:** "aaccba"

**Explanation:** There are many ways to make "abccba" not a palindrome, such as "zbccba", "aaccba", and "abacba". Of all the ways, "aaccba" is the lexicographically smallest.

**Example 2:**

**Input:** palindrome = "a"

**Output:** ""

**Explanation:** There is no way to replace a single character to make "a" not a palindrome, so return an empty string.

**Constraints:**

*   `1 <= palindrome.length <= 1000`
*   `palindrome` consists of only lowercase English letters.