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Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff, Diane Holmberg, Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 815-826
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