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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

recently published a story by filmmaker Robert Camina in which he claims to have identified one of the three unidentified victims of the 1973 Up Stairs Lounge fire (February/March #1101). “It is time to officially acknowledge Larry Norman Frost,” he writes, “as a victim of the Up Stairs Lounge arson.” As authors of a pair of deeply researched histories about the fire and its aftermath, we

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