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Participants in a summer Elderhostel course on grief were invited to complete open-ended questionnaires about their personal experiences in responding to the loss of an important close relationship.
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Weber, A.L. (1992). The Account-Making Process: A Phenomenological Approach. In: Orbuch, T.L. (eds) Close Relationship Loss. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9186-9_10
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