Clever! liverpole++

Here's a crack at deobfuscating it:

Update: Cleared up the "obfuscated deobfuscation" as noted by ysth, though the original test was written to most closely resemble (from at least my point of view) the original obfuscated code. Apologies for any confusion. Also added a little extra explanation (with reference to associated documentation).

s**lil*;  $*=join'',sort split q**;  s;.*;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; =
qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)
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