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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 _parse_contents(self, contents_file_path):
        '''
        Parse the contents .json file and return the dictionary

        Parameters
        ----------
        contents_file_path: str
            Path to file containing .json file to parse.

        Returns
        -------
        contents_dict: dict
            parsed .json file
        '''
        logging.debug("Parsing %s" % (contents_file_path))
        contents_dict = json.load(open(contents_file_path))
        return contents_dict