The consequential stranger: Peripheral relationships across the life span

Growing Together: Personal Relationships Across the Life Span

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 183-209

  Fingerman, Karen L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499852.008     Document Type: Chapter

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