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  For Leah Koch, the romance novel is life.

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  She's loved romance since she was a teenager.

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  What is it that draws you so much to this type of writing?

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  Great question.

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  Let's quickly define what a romance novel is.

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  You need two things to be a romance novel.

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  You need a central love story and a happy ending.

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  And the happy ending, sometimes people try to get around for some reason, but you can't.

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  They have to be together and happy at the end.

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  They do not have to be heterosexually married with a baby, but, like, one of them can't get hit by a.

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  Bus because that's a tragedy, right?

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  Yeah.

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  Or a train a la Anna Karenina.

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  Anna Karenina is not a romance novel.

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  She dies.

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  Got it, Got it.

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  Anyway, I read to have fun.

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  Same.

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  And romance novels are fun.

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  Leah loves romance so much that in 2016, she and her sister opened up a bookstore devoted to it.

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