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(CNN) — Have you ever wanted to burn a man?

In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s Baker Beach as a symbolic act of letting go of their personal crises. They call it the “First Burn.”

Every year since, the two committed to doing it again. While it started as a one-day event in San Francisco, in 1990 it moved to Black Rock City, Nevada, about 120 miles from Reno, and now lasts a week.

It’s an interesting event because you have to survive a couple of days with people you’v

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