Two Cuts in a Baguette

A baker slices a baguette of length LL into three pieces using two cuts. She chooses the two cut positions independently and uniformly at random, subject to one constraint: one cut must land in the left half of the loaf and the other in the right half. What is the probability that the two cuts end up more than L3\frac{L}{3} apart?

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