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For decades, the romance genre was the wallflower of the entertainment industry. Critics dismissed romance novels as "bodice rippers"; Hollywood relegated romantic comedies to the "chick flick" ghetto of early-2000s cinema. But somewhere around the mid-2010s, the tide turned. In 2023, Romance accounted for over 18% of