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Romance is a story in which two people engage in courting activities and by the end of the story have fallen in love and maintain a relationship. Often they end in marriage and/or some other type of permanent bond.
Chick lit is focused on a woman's life and whatever happens in said life. Shopping is often included, lol, but doesn't have to be there. This woman is often single.
As women tend to fall in love, you can find romance like things happening in chick-lit. BUT...romance - as it's own genre - focuses on the relationship being built between two (or more) people. This genre ends with what is called a HEA or Happily Ever After. Occasionally you get a HFN or Happy for Now ending, but the end result is the same.
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