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You should be using the tokenize to actually parse the sentences. If you tokenize on spaces then you can put spaces in where needed (between words) and not have to worry about 'removing' them.

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...