Variations on sibling intimacy in old age

Generations

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 34-40

  Bedford, Victoria Hilkevitch ^a   Avioli, Paula Smith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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