Rowspan in a report? (APEX 2.2.0)

Hi all,
I have a report that looks roughly like the data below. (Please forgive the boring sample data; my imagination is busy elsewhere.)
| COL_A | COL_B | col_c | col_d | COL_E |
| aye 1 | bee 1 | cee 1a | dee 1a | ee 1a |
| aye 1 | bee 1 | cee 1b | dee 1b | ee 1b |
| aye 1 | bee 1 | cee 1c | dee 1c | ee 1c |
| aye 2 | bee 2 | cee 2a | dee 2a | ee 2a |
| aye 2 | bee 2 | cee 2b | dee 2b | ee 2b |
-------------------------------------I'd like to take the columns I labeled in capital letters and group those rows together using rowspans so that it looks more like this:
| COL_A | COL_B | col_c | col_d | COL_E |
|       |       | cee 1a | dee 1a | ee 1a |
|       |       -----------------------
| aye 1 | bee 1 | cee 1b | dee 1b | ee 1b |
|       |       -----------------------
|       |       | cee 1c | dee 1c | ee 1c |
|       |       | cee 2a | dee 2a | ee 2a |
| aye 2 | bee 2 -----------------------
|       |       | cee 2b | dee 2b | ee 2b |
-------------------------------------How can I do that? Is my best option instead to aggregate the 1a, 1b, 1c into a <br>-delimited list and just make sure that they're in the right order?
Thanks!

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