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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 dumps(self, o):
 """ Returns a serialized string representing the object, post-deduplication. :param o: the object """

        f = io.BytesIO()
        VaultPickler(self, f).dump(o)
        f.seek(0)
        return f.read()