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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 read_file(path):
 """Read a UTF-8 file from the package. Takes a list of strings to join to make the path"""

    file_path = os.path.join(here, *path)
    with open(file_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
        return f.read()