# The Steamy, Billion-Dollar World of Romantasy

An episode of [Big Take](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578096201), 2 Oct 2026, 18 min.

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Romantasy books have created a near-billion-dollar industry in the US alone. This week, fans are racing to grab a copy of Rebecca Yarros’ Threshing Day, and bracing for the sixth installment of one of the genre’s biggest hits, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, coming later this month. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Hannah Miller and Madison Muller take host David Gura into the booming world of publishing’s runaway obsession. And The Knave and the Moon author Rachel Gillig talks about going from preschool teacher to global literary celebrity. Read more: The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Host: David Gura; Guests: Hannah Miller, Madison Muller; Produced by Julia Press and David Fox; Edited by Aaron Edwards; Engineering by Sean Carter; Illustration by Anna Podedworna. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios.
[0:04] Speaker 2: Podcasts. Radio. News. A band of shadow wraps around my
[0:10] Speaker 2: waist a second before my hair is swept to the side,
[0:13] Speaker 2: and Zayden sets his lips to the juncture of my
[0:15] Speaker 2: neck and shoulder in an open-mouthed kiss.
[0:18] Speaker 3: Don't touch that dial. You are still listening to The
[0:20] Speaker 3: Big Take Podcast. But today, we're bringing you into the
[0:24] Speaker 3: world of romanticism.
[0:26] Speaker 2: Oh, yes. I gasp as an immediate flare of heat
[0:28] Speaker 2: races down my spine at the lash of his tongue,
[0:31] Speaker 2: the scrape of his teeth, and my head falls back
[0:34] Speaker 2: against his shoulder.
[0:34] Speaker 1: They should employ you to read these audiobooks, Hannah.
[0:38] Speaker 2: That is one of the less explicit parts in the book.
[0:43] Speaker 3: Hannah Miller and Madison Muller are reporters at Bloomberg. Hannah
[0:46] Speaker 3: was just reading from Onyx Storm, a novel by Rebecca Yaros.
[0:50] Speaker 3: It sold 2.7 million copies in its first week last year,
[0:54] Speaker 3: and it became the fastest-selling adult novel in 20 years.
[0:59] Speaker 3: And it's just one title in a rapidly growing genre
[1:02] Speaker 3: that has readers hooked.
[1:08] Speaker 2: It's a combination of romance and fantasy.
[1:11] Speaker 1: Werewolf, shifters, dragons, fairies, with some romance element. I mean,
[1:15] Speaker 1: you can just kind of like pick and choose what
[1:17] Speaker 1: you want, and there's probably a romance-y book that you
[1:20] Speaker 1: can find.
[1:21] Speaker 3: As the genre has taken off, so has the near
[1:24] Speaker 3: billion-dollar industry around it, which includes merchandise and bespoke bookstores, podcasts,
[1:29] Speaker 3: and film adaptations that all centered around the work of
[1:32] Speaker 3: authors who transport readers to misty kingdoms and dangerous war academies.
[1:38] Speaker 1: If you love reading, smart and romantic, you need to
[1:40] Speaker 1: go to the new romance bookstore in London.
[1:41] Speaker 3: Just found out that Indigo is selling an ACOTAR merch collection.
[1:44] Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie.
[1:45] Speaker 3: I'm going to be picking up a couple of things.
[1:46] Speaker 2: Day three of Romanticicon and most of the convention and
[1:49] Speaker 2: the signing is done, but we're now getting ready for
[1:51] Speaker 2: the masquerade ball.
[1:53] Speaker 3: So how is the rapid growth of this genre reshaping
[1:56] Speaker 3: our mortal world? And how could its reign take the
[1:59] Speaker 3: business of books to new heights? I'm David Gurra, and
[2:08] Speaker 3: this is The Big Take from Bloomberg News. Today on
[2:11] Speaker 3: the show, how romanticy became the next big thing in publishing,
[2:15] Speaker 3: and how warlords, dragons, and shadow daddies are driving a
[2:19] Speaker 3: new and booming economy. Madison Muller's day job is covering
[2:27] Speaker 3: health care for Bloomberg.
[2:29] Speaker 1: I am also a massive romanticy fan and reader myself,
[2:32] Speaker 1: so I begged them to let me do this story
[2:35] Speaker 1: with Hannah.
[2:35] Speaker 3: Hannah Miller covers media.
[2:37] Speaker 2: I was a huge fantasy nerd growing up. I loved
[2:40] Speaker 2: Harry Potter. I loved Hunger Games, all these books.
[2:43] Speaker 1: People who loved Twilight, who liked things like that, it
[2:47] Speaker 1: is the same sort of romance, high stakes, fantasy elements.
[2:51] Speaker 1: And a lot of readers say that it feels familiar
[2:53] Speaker 1: and it feels like they are falling in love with
[2:56] Speaker 1: reading again.
[2:57] Speaker 3: What you both set out to do here is dig
[2:59] Speaker 3: into this romantic economy. How does that translate to business?
[3:04] Speaker 2: So this is just for U.S. book sales for 2025.
[3:09] Speaker 2: Close to a billion dollars worth of Romanesie books were
[3:12] Speaker 2: sold in the U.S. last year. Those are huge numbers.
[3:15] Speaker 2: I got to go to a big event called BookCon
[3:18] Speaker 2: for this story. It's a book convention. And you have
[3:20] Speaker 2: people coming in costume, wearing leathery black wings, furry tails,
[3:25] Speaker 2: ball gowns. They're all coming to see their favorite authors,
[3:28] Speaker 2: get their book signed, and buy up merch. They also
[3:31] Speaker 2: get free books and giveaways, and those get brutal. People
[3:35] Speaker 2: shove each other and push each other, trying to be
[3:37] Speaker 2: the first to grab a free copy. So it gets
[3:40] Speaker 2: a little intense at times, but it's really fun. And
[3:44] Speaker 2: it kind of was described to me as Comic-Con for women.
[3:46] Speaker 2: And one of the authors there was talking about how
[3:48] Speaker 2: a guy came up to her and was degrading her
[3:50] Speaker 2: for writing porn. And she just said, I'll go cry
[3:53] Speaker 2: into my piles of money. Thanks.
[3:58] Speaker 4: That's amazing.
[3:59] Speaker 3: That book con Hannah went to was back in April,
[4:02] Speaker 3: and it's the first one that's been held since the pandemic.
[4:05] Speaker 3: And in those intervening years, romanticism has grown into a
[4:08] Speaker 3: behemoth genre in the publishing world. It dominated book con,
[4:13] Speaker 3: with panels like I'm in Love with a Monster and
[4:16] Speaker 3: Are We Still Single Because of Fictional Characters? Hot takes
[4:19] Speaker 3: on the most iconic book boyfriends of our time.
[4:22] Speaker 1: Most of the people reading these books are reading like 20, 30,
[4:26] Speaker 1: 40 books a year. And so that's a pretty incredible...
[4:30] Speaker 1: literacy rate if you're thinking about it, and it's driven
[4:33] Speaker 1: a lot more people into reading and also into reading
[4:35] Speaker 1: other genres as well.
[4:37] Speaker 3: Romantic novels span a range of themes, settings, and characters,
[4:41] Speaker 3: but there's a certain vibe to them. One of the
[4:43] Speaker 3: genre's breakout series is A Court of Thorns and Roses
[4:47] Speaker 3: by Sarah J. Moss, known by its shorthand, Akatar.
[4:50] Speaker 2: A Court of Thorns and Roses follows a young human
[4:54] Speaker 2: who ends up trapped in a world populated by very sexy,
[4:58] Speaker 2: fairy-like people. It's important to know that they're all impossibly beautiful.
[5:03] Speaker 2: And while she's trying to help save this kingdom, she
[5:06] Speaker 2: finds herself trapped in a love triangle. And things get crazy.
[5:10] Speaker 2: I'll just say that.
[5:12] Speaker 3: It sold more than 9 million copies in the U.S.
[5:15] Speaker 3: alone in 2024. There's also Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaros,
[5:20] Speaker 3: the first in her Empyrean series. Hannah read from the
[5:23] Speaker 3: third book in that series earlier.
[5:25] Speaker 1: Fourth Wing is about a young woman named Violet Sorengale
[5:29] Speaker 1: who enters into this elite, really cutthroat war academy. And
[5:35] Speaker 1: at this war academy, the way that you sort of
[5:37] Speaker 1: succeed is by kind of like bonding with a dragon.
[5:40] Speaker 1: And she meets this man, Zayden, who is sort of
[5:44] Speaker 1: her enemy at the beginning. They hate each other. And
[5:48] Speaker 1: of course, they end up falling in love over the
[5:51] Speaker 1: course of this book and this series. And there's lots
[5:54] Speaker 1: of dragons involved and they have powers as well. So
[5:57] Speaker 1: there's that element to some magic involved.
[6:00] Speaker 3: That series has sold more than 12 million editions in
[6:03] Speaker 3: the U.S. as of 2025.
[6:07] Speaker 2: And it features a common trope in romanticism, which is
[6:11] Speaker 2: the shadow daddy.
[6:12] Speaker 3: Tell me about the shadow daddy.
[6:13] Speaker 2: A shadow daddy is very sexy. He usually has dark,
[6:15] Speaker 2: beautiful hair. He has a tortured past. He's very mysterious,
[6:19] Speaker 2: a bit closed off emotionally. And some shadow daddies can
[6:23] Speaker 2: literally control shadows using magic. And that comes into play
[6:27] Speaker 2: both in fighting and romance and lots of other ways.
[6:30] Speaker 3: But for all the money flowing in from these books,
[6:33] Speaker 3: they also have their detractors. What kind of blowback has
[6:36] Speaker 3: this genre gotten?
[6:37] Speaker 1: People sort of ridicule it for being not serious.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Chaudry.
[6:41] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[6:42] Speaker 1: Porn, like Hannah said, sort of like that there's no
[6:44] Speaker 1: real substance to these books. They're not intellectual and they're
[6:48] Speaker 1: just degraded. People don't consider it a serious form of reading.
[6:53] Speaker 2: Some of the tropes get criticized as well. Some of
[6:56] Speaker 2: these shadow daddies are in positions of power for their
[7:00] Speaker 2: human lover. Sometimes they're hundreds of years older. then their lover.
[7:06] Speaker 2: So these are things that come up, you know, like,
[7:09] Speaker 2: is this a healthy relationship that's being promoted? Are people
[7:12] Speaker 2: romanticizing a villain versus a hero? So yeah, those are
[7:17] Speaker 2: very frequent topics of conversation in the romanticist fan community.
[7:21] Speaker 1: The truth is that a lot of these books actually
[7:23] Speaker 1: feature really strong female characters who have the world on
[7:27] Speaker 1: their shoulders oftentimes, literally like have to save their kingdom
[7:30] Speaker 1: or their world. And they have you know, interesting or
[7:34] Speaker 1: difficult pasts that they have to cope with and sort
[7:37] Speaker 1: of move past. And so there are a lot of, like,
[7:40] Speaker 1: more serious themes in these books.
[7:43] Speaker 3: One of the big propellers of Romantasy is BookTok, this
[7:46] Speaker 3: corner of TikTok where readers share recommendations. It's where you'll
[7:50] Speaker 3: find diehard fans diving into the worlds of these books,
[7:53] Speaker 3: picking them apart and hyping them up to other readers.
[7:57] Speaker 3: It's also become a really important customer base for the
[8:00] Speaker 3: publishing industry.
[8:01] Speaker 1: Romantasy has been definitely one of the biggest themes, biggest
[8:04] Speaker 1: corners of book talk, creators with massive followings. I mean,
[8:08] Speaker 1: we're talking tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of
[8:10] Speaker 1: followers who have even been able to make careers for
[8:14] Speaker 1: themselves out of just reviewing and talking about books, filming
[8:18] Speaker 1: reactions to their favorite books.
[8:20] Speaker 2: I knew you guys said this was crazy. I knew
[8:22] Speaker 2: you guys said keep reading, keep reading because you're never
[8:24] Speaker 2: going to even believe it.
[8:29] Speaker 1: And they're able to leave corporate jobs to sort of
[8:31] Speaker 1: do this full time because there's just such a demand
[8:34] Speaker 1: and a captive audience. And it's created communities of readers, too.
[8:38] Speaker 1: So people who go to BookTok to find their next read,
[8:42] Speaker 1: they want to find something that's like the last, you know,
[8:44] Speaker 1: A Court of Thorns and Roses or Fourth Wing. And
[8:47] Speaker 1: they're looking for different recommendations.
[8:49] Speaker 2: If this is the series that got you into reading,
[8:51] Speaker 2: I have 19 book recommendations for you.
[8:53] Speaker 1: They meet friends on here. They find, you know, like-minded
[8:56] Speaker 1: people who then they go on book retreats with. There's
[8:59] Speaker 1: community events. There's trivia nights.
[9:01] Speaker 3: Hannah and Madison actually went to one of those trivia nights.
[9:04] Speaker 3: For research, of course.
[9:07] Speaker 2: And it was so much fun. It was really hard.
[9:10] Speaker 2: We did not win. We did not win.
[9:11] Speaker 1: We definitely lost.
[9:12] Speaker 2: There were three teams that had perfect scores. And it
[9:15] Speaker 2: just showed how obsessed they are with these books.
[9:18] Speaker 3: And that obsession has fueled a near billion-dollar economy.
[9:21] Speaker 1: There's a lot of businesses that have become really successful,
[9:25] Speaker 1: you know, selling, making merch that are related to these books.
[9:29] Speaker 1: We spoke to a company called Rebel and Floor for
[9:32] Speaker 1: this story. They're one of the most popular. They've been
[9:35] Speaker 1: around for the past few years. They make all kinds
[9:38] Speaker 1: of things, shirts, sweatshirts. jewelry, bookmarks, basically like anything that
[9:43] Speaker 1: you could possibly want related to these books.
[9:46] Speaker 2: And we've also seen some more creative businesses pop up.
[9:49] Speaker 2: So Romantasy themed vacation retreats where people go to beautiful
[9:53] Speaker 2: locations that are kind of similar to the settings in
[9:56] Speaker 2: these Romantasy books.
[9:58] Speaker 1: We spoke to a Dartmouth professor who is literally writing
[10:02] Speaker 1: a book herself on the whole economic engine behind Romantasy,
[10:08] Speaker 1: and she teaches this in her class at Dartmouth. So
[10:10] Speaker 1: it's like another example of the ways that this category,
[10:14] Speaker 1: this genre has become super entrenched and is an economic
[10:17] Speaker 1: driving force right now and also is getting more people
[10:20] Speaker 1: back into reading.
[10:21] Speaker 4: It was about six months after One Dark Window had
[10:24] Speaker 4: come out and it started getting a few, we'd call
[10:28] Speaker 4: viral takes.
[10:29] Speaker 3: Rachel Gillig is the author of two popular series that
[10:32] Speaker 3: blend romance with gothic fantasy.
[10:35] Speaker 4: Because of things like BookTok, because of the pandemic and
[10:37] Speaker 4: that more people were discussing books in online spaces, it
[10:41] Speaker 4: made my second book, my sophomore novel, New York Times bestseller.
[10:45] Speaker 1: It awes me.
[10:46] Speaker 4: And it's strange to me that people recognize me because
[10:49] Speaker 4: I'm quite quiet in my everyday life. I used to
[10:54] Speaker 4: be a preschool teacher, and if you would have told
[10:55] Speaker 4: me that 10 years ago, I would have not believed you.
[11:00] Speaker 3: Coming up, how the Romantasy boom is reshaping the traditional
[11:04] Speaker 3: publishing industry, and what happens when Hollywood gets involved, and
[11:08] Speaker 3: when you go from preschool teacher to global literary celebrity.
[11:24] Speaker 3: What is life like for a successful author of one.
[11:27] Speaker 2: Of these books?
[11:28] Speaker 1: It's like almost Taylor Swift level. I mean, these authors
[11:31] Speaker 1: have really massive fan bases.
[11:34] Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Madison Muller has been reporting on the rise of
[11:37] Speaker 3: the romanticist genre, and the popularity of the books has
[11:40] Speaker 3: made some of these authors pop star famous.
[11:42] Speaker 1: They're rubbing shoulders with other celebrities. I mean, Sarah J. Moss,
[11:46] Speaker 1: who is the author of A Court of Thorns and Roses,
[11:48] Speaker 1: has been spotted in Brooklyn many times with Margot Robbie,
[11:51] Speaker 1: the actress, and they're supposedly good friends now. She was
[11:55] Speaker 1: also on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, a very
[11:58] Speaker 1: popular podcast. And so they've reached this level of fame
[12:01] Speaker 1: that is usually reserved for pop stars or celebrities.
[12:04] Speaker 3: And that popularity of authors in the space and their
[12:06] Speaker 3: work has started to tip the scales of power in
[12:10] Speaker 3: the publishing industry.
[12:12] Speaker 1: Some of the biggest name publishers are chasing after this
[12:16] Speaker 1: genre now. And these book deals are big. I mean,
[12:20] Speaker 1: we're talking like seven-figure book deals for these authors that
[12:24] Speaker 1: people know and love and follow on social media. We
[12:27] Speaker 1: spoke to Kensington, which is a New York-based independent publisher.
[12:30] Speaker 1: They've been one of the most sort of successful in
[12:32] Speaker 1: this genre, have snapped up a lot of really big
[12:35] Speaker 1: books and emerging authors. And Kensington said it's gotten increasingly
[12:39] Speaker 1: competitive online. They're having to sort of change up their
[12:41] Speaker 1: playbook a bit and pitching authors in a different way
[12:44] Speaker 1: of what sorts of benefits they can offer them just
[12:46] Speaker 1: because a lot of these authors already have big audiences
[12:50] Speaker 1: and have self-published and they're like, well, why would we
[12:52] Speaker 1: need you?
[12:53] Speaker 3: It is so fascinating. They're kind of like having to
[12:55] Speaker 3: make their case to authors where I think traditionally my
[12:58] Speaker 3: understanding at least is like you sell your book, you're
[13:00] Speaker 3: hoping a house picks it up.
[13:02] Speaker 1: And then there are these sites where authors can self-publish or,
[13:06] Speaker 1: you know, indie publish and And so they don't need
[13:09] Speaker 1: publishers in the same way, at least in this space.
[13:12] Speaker 1: But the publishers are still saying, no, you do need us.
[13:14] Speaker 1: And there are complexities with translations or international distribution or
[13:19] Speaker 1: getting into some of these big retailers, special editions or
[13:23] Speaker 1: sprayed edges on books, making them really beautiful. There are
[13:26] Speaker 1: still ways in which publishing industry can help out these authors.
[13:30] Speaker 1: It's just shifted when you have something that goes viral
[13:34] Speaker 1: quickly and kind of catches fire online and already has
[13:39] Speaker 1: a big audience.
[13:40] Speaker 3: Some authors have still found success going more traditional routes.
[13:44] Speaker 3: Rachel Gillig is the author of a series of books
[13:47] Speaker 3: about a noblewoman in a kingdom consumed with a mysterious plague.
[13:52] Speaker 4: One Dark Window is my debut novel. I categorize it
[13:54] Speaker 4: as sort of gothic fantasy, but ultimately it's an adventure story.
[13:59] Speaker 4: There's a bit of a quest in it. There's a
[14:00] Speaker 4: magical art system. There is a subplot romance.
[14:03] Speaker 3: Gillig is one of the best-selling authors in Barnes &
[14:06] Speaker 3: Noble's Romantasy section.
[14:08] Speaker 4: To be honest, I never really considered self-publishing because I
[14:10] Speaker 4: don't consider myself a good salesperson. Even today, I've been
[14:14] Speaker 4: doing this and I have had to become a lot
[14:18] Speaker 4: better at giving elevator pitches, telling people what I write
[14:21] Speaker 4: and what they're about. I also, I'm self-taught. So the
[14:25] Speaker 4: mentorship that comes with having a literary agent, mine reads
[14:28] Speaker 4: all my books before they even get to my editor.
[14:30] Speaker 4: I wanted to have those sort of relationships. Even now,
[14:34] Speaker 4: as I've done this and I understand what it takes
[14:36] Speaker 4: to get a book from consumption to getting it on
[14:38] Speaker 4: the shelf, I don't want to do it completely by
[14:41] Speaker 4: myself at all.
[14:43] Speaker 3: I'm very curious about like the business of Rachel Gilligan,
[14:45] Speaker 3: how that breaks down. So you're writing these books, but
[14:48] Speaker 3: I know that there are events and retreats and there's merch.
[14:52] Speaker 3: Are the books still paramount or is like all of
[14:55] Speaker 3: that other stuff really important as well?
[14:57] Speaker 4: The books are the absolute bottom of the pyramid because
[14:59] Speaker 4: they're the most like foundational. Yes, the main source of
[15:03] Speaker 4: my income and the business is around obviously book deals.
[15:08] Speaker 4: At my stage, I don't write a book and then
[15:10] Speaker 4: hope to sell it. I'm pitching concepts. So it comes
[15:13] Speaker 4: from that. And then it comes from sales in the U.S.
[15:18] Speaker 4: and foreign rights. My most recent book, it's quite funny.
[15:21] Speaker 4: There's like a gargoyle who I never thought would.
[15:23] Speaker 2: Be as popular as it.
[15:25] Speaker 4: But everyone's like, can we make gargoyle merch? So maybe,
[15:27] Speaker 4: I know, maybe I'm going to eat my hat after
[15:29] Speaker 4: this interview. And the gargoyle money will just be the
[15:33] Speaker 4: main important thing. But it's the books, certainly. That is
[15:36] Speaker 4: my business. And it's far larger than I thought it
[15:39] Speaker 4: would be.
[15:40] Speaker 3: Hannah, you cover media here. How common is it for
[15:43] Speaker 3: there to be a genre that breaks out in the
[15:45] Speaker 3: way in which Romanesie has?
[15:47] Speaker 2: I think Romanesie is special. The fact that you're seeing
[15:50] Speaker 2: movie rights get bought for these things before these books
[15:53] Speaker 2: are even published, that's crazy. For Fourth Wing, Amazon is
[15:58] Speaker 2: producing a series with Michael B. Jordan's production company, ACOTAR.
[16:02] Speaker 2: There was a failed attempt for an adaptation by Disney's Hulu.
[16:06] Speaker 3: What happened there?
[16:07] Speaker 2: It was a victim of the writer's strike. So, yeah,
[16:09] Speaker 2: Sarah got the rights back. Everyone is just waiting to
[16:12] Speaker 2: see what becomes of them.
[16:15] Speaker 3: What are the challenges of translating these books to TV
[16:18] Speaker 3: or the big screen?
[16:20] Speaker 2: It's very costly from a technological perspective.
[16:23] Speaker 3: There were dragons involved.
[16:23] Speaker 2: Exactly. So with this, you know, fourth-wing series coming from Amazon...
[16:28] Speaker 2: They're like dragons in most of the scenes. These giant
[16:32] Speaker 2: dragons that people ride and do battle on and crazy stuff.
[16:35] Speaker 1: Talking dragons.
[16:36] Speaker 2: They talk. And so, you know, it's very expensive to
[16:41] Speaker 2: animate these dragons. If you're doing live action, that's going
[16:44] Speaker 2: to be a huge cost. We've seen that with series
[16:46] Speaker 2: like Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon from HBO.
[16:49] Speaker 2: So it is something that Hollywood studios are going to
[16:53] Speaker 2: have to invest in and pony up a lot of
[16:55] Speaker 2: cash for.
[16:57] Speaker 3: How long the romanticism boom will last remains an open question.
[17:01] Speaker 3: But when Sarah J Maas appeared on Call Her Daddy
[17:03] Speaker 3: back in March, she announced the next much-awaited ACOTAR book
[17:06] Speaker 3: is coming out in October, and another will drop in January.
[17:11] Speaker 3: Could another wave be just around the misty corner? Time
[17:14] Speaker 3: will tell. But for now, fans seem ready to dive
[17:17] Speaker 3: right back in.
[17:18] Speaker 2: This is my theory about ACOTAR 6. Planning our reading
[17:21] Speaker 2: retreat for the ACOTAR 6 release week.
[17:23] Speaker 4: Just popping in really quick to remind you to reread ACOTAR, okay?
[17:29] Speaker 4: October 30th is right around the corner.
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