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LAZY vs EAGER loading.
Tests whether you know LAZY defers fetching an association until it's actually accessed (risking a LazyInitializationException outside a transaction), while EAGER fetches it immediately with the parent -- and whether you default to LAZY to avoid over-fetching unused associations.
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