Introduction
Chapter 1: “Please Excuse All Mistakes”: Letter-Writing, Shame, and Social Connection
Chapter 2: Working-Class Americans Choose a Mate: Nonromantic Courtship and Tribal Intimacy
Chapter 3: The Love Continuum: Understanding Romantic and Nonromantic Attachment
Chapter 4: Sex Talk, Humor, and Fear of Ridicule: Desire and Self-Protection
Chapter 5: Love to All Inquiring Friends: Sustaining Communal Ties in Nonromantic Marriage
Chapter 6: Fighting to Stay Together: Unhappy Spouses and Their Struggles
Chapter 7: Roses Are Red/ Violets are Blue: Emotional History in Rhyme
Chapter 8: Imagining the Eternal Village: Death, Longing, and Loss
Epilogue
Appendix A: Writing, Education, and Literacy
Appendix B: Literacy and Oral Culture
Notes
Index
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