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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 de_duplicate(items):
 """Remove any duplicate item, preserving order [1, 2] """

    result = []
    for item in items:
        if item not in result:
            result.append(item)
    return result