Burning Man

September, 1998

Kevin hasn't seen his bad-boy rock-star brother in ten years. Their meeting, at the festival of the Burning Man, is a shockBurning Man was heat, dust and madness, and I felt about as out of place as it's possible to feel, in my middle-aged body, in my khaki shorts and knit shirt and sandals, with my expanding belly and soft chest and salt-and-pepper hair cut short, surrounded by the extraordinarily youthful with extravagant manes of vibrant hair and muscular, ripe bodies, either mostly undressed...

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