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Romance
Genre:
While it can have elements of other genres (think, mystery, suspense or historical), the storyline is front-and-center a romance: Character A and Character B fall in love, something intervenes, they find their way back together and live happily ever after (aka, HEA) or at least Happily For Now (HFN).
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