A little more bash syntax can quote newlines for awk.
$ foo="a
b
c"
$ lf="
"
$ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'"${foo//$lf/\\n}"'"} END {print foo}' /dev/null
a
b
c
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Mike Stroyan
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