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Teresa M. Cooney, Dennis P. Hogan, Marriage in an Institutionalized Life Course: First Marriage among American Men in the Twentieth Century, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 178-190
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