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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def load_json(self, path):
 """Load a JSON file from the user profile."""

        with open(self.profile_path(path, must_exist=True),
                  encoding='utf-8') as f:
            data = json.load(f)
        return data