Re-Engaging: New partnerships in late-life widowhood

Intimacy in Later Life

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 47-63

  Stevens, Nan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203788240-3     Document Type: Chapter

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