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Nancy S. Landale, Katherine Fennelly, Informal Unions among Mainland Puerto Ricans: Cohabitation or an Alternative to Legal Marriage?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 269-280
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