id="cite_ref-greenwald_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenwald-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> After returning from a solo tour in August 2000 Carrabba announced that he was leaving the group in order to focus on Dashboard Confessional full-time:</p>
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<p>"I knew the only chance I had to make it in the music scene was go out there and do all the legwork to push yourself and make yourself known...I was willing to do that and they weren't. They were playing music around thei