Hide/Show Sibling Element

Hide/Show Sibling Element

Consider the following:
  1. <div id="item-1">
  2.       <a href="#">The Link</a>
  3.       <div>The contents shown on hover only</div>
  4. </div>
I'm positioning elements absolutely.  I want the child DIV to show when I hover over the link.  Here is how I'm accomplishing this:
  1. $("#item-1 a").mouseover(function() {$("#item-1 div").fadeIn('fast');})
  2. $("#item-1 a").mouseout(function() {$("#item-1 div").fadeOut('fast');})
This works wonderfully.  But I would really like to make this generic so that I need 2 lines of code, not 2 times however many items I have.

Any ideas?