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Given a string of lower case letters (a - z), write a Python function that returns the first duplicate letter.

def find_duplicate(word: str) -> str:
    # implement find_duplicate
    return 'a'

1def find_duplicate(word: str) -> str:
2    # implement find_duplicate
3    return 'a'
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