Stumped on silly nil object but debug shows it is not nil

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<%= faq.faqcats[:title] -%> in view kills it with this error:

"You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occurred while evaluating nil."

Extracted source (around line #16)

16: <%= faq.faqcats[:title] -%>

===scenario===

I am using :include => [:faqcats, :modes], in my controller find request

in my view: <%= debug(faq) -%> prints

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Like I said silly. I ended up having a Faqs with the faqcat_id of Faqcats that had been removed. so some nil objects. duhhh... (I knew I forgot to finish something in the admin the other day)