Each square in a grid is either filled or empty, and has up to eight adjacent neighboring squares, where neighboring squares share either a side or a corner. The grid is transformed by the following rules:
Suppose the grid has a border of empty squares surrounding a subgrid (meaning only the central cells can be configured, and border cells are fixed to empty). How many initial configurations will lead to a transformed grid consisting of a single filled square in the center after a single transformation? (Rotations and reflections of the same configuration are considered different.)
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