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The Zwicky Transient Facility openParZTFclosePar is on track to transform the field of tidal disruption events openParTDEsclosePar. In the first 2.5 yr of ZTF survey operations openParZTF-IclosePar comma we have detected 25 TDEs. However comma despite this exciting progress in assembling a large sample of TDEs comma the nature of the optical emission remains a mystery comma and appears to be distinct from the soft X-ray component openParkTvirgul50 eVclosePar associated with the accretion of the stellar debris through a newly formed disk. In fact comma with our X-ray follow-up observations we have revealed that the soft X-rays show dramatic variability that is totally decoupled from the smoothly evolving optical emission. Here propose for a program in AO-20 in order to create a legacy sample for X-ray population studies of TDEs for the first time.