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BN: So how did it, I mean, after five years, it kind of ends. How did you decide to, kind of, end it?

DA: Gosh. I know that was another big meeting, and if I recall, wherever the money was coming from, the resources were dwindling if they're not all gone. And so the idea to continue on was fraught with a lot of hurdles, obviously. Money being one of them, and the other one is a lot of us were transitioning out, right? Transitioning out of school. So I think, yeah, we took our time, I think, on that last issue, didn't come out right away. And with the idea that, yeah, we're going to put out this one big last hurrah. So we did, and we finally put it all together. We had a big party afterwards, I think, once we finished it.

BN: Did you feel... well, reading it, it doesn't say that it's the last issue. It says it might be or...

DA: Is that right?

BN: Yeah, this is Mike's piece. He says, "This may be the last issue for a couple of months, or a year, or maybe forever." Kind of leaves it open. So how did you feel at that point? Was it your understanding that this was kind of it?

DA: Well, I thought so. And you know, as it turned out, there was another group later, many years later, that tried to revive it.

BN: A couple times.

DA: So I still find that kind of, very interesting. But I knew at the time that what we did was somehow important in that we made our mark. And certain things have to end, there's kind of a natural order of things. But I felt good about it. And yeah, again today, I'm still so surprised that people are still interested in it.

BN: Yeah, yes. I mean, did you think people would be reading it fifty years later?

DA: Not really. [Laughs] Not really, you know. But I do think that that time in the '60s and early '70s is a really special time in our country's history. And I'm happy to be a part of it.

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