diff --git a/u4/word_count.py b/u4/word_count.py
index 1125029..21505f4 100644
--- a/u4/word_count.py
+++ b/u4/word_count.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 import string
-from collections import Counter
+
+
 def count_words(sentence):
+    counts = {}
     text = sentence.lower()
-for mark in string.punctuation.replace("'", ""):
+
+    for mark in string.punctuation.replace("'", ""):
         text = text.replace(mark, " ")
-words = []
+
     for word in text.split():
         word = word.strip("'")
         if word:
-            words.append(word)
+            counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
 
-    return dict(Counter(words))
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+    return counts
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