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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(self, fasta_path):
 """ Read the contents of a FASTA file into a dictionary """

        fasta_dictionary = {}
        for (identifier, sequence) in self.iterate_over_file(fasta_path):
            fasta_dictionary[identifier] = sequence
        return fasta_dictionary