Why do certain terms vanish in Jackson 3.7 grounded sphere problem?

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Hi,
The question is
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Three point charges (q,−2q,q) are located in a straight line with separation a and with the middle charge (−2q) at the origin of a grounded conducting spherical shell of radius b ..."

I have found a solution for this problem but there is one step that I don't understand. I have uploaded the pdf file.
Last page the term ##-\frac{1}{r}## vanishes and at the bottom of the page the
##\frac{1}{b}-\frac{1}{r}## vanishes too. Can you tell me why?
 

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at l=0 the term vanishes.
But what about the other values of l
 
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