file content into unix variable with newlines

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I have a text file test.txt with the following content:
text1
text2

And I want to assign the content of the file to a UNIX variable but when I do this:

testvar=$(cat test.txt)

echo $testvar the reult is:

text1 text2

instead of

text1
text2

Can someone suggest me a solution for this?

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