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    Dharma
    Dharma
    Dharma
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    Dharma

    By Charles de Lint

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    Short story Dharma first appeared in Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy, edited by M. Gerry Weiss & Helen S. Weiss; Tor Books, 2007.

    Set in Newford during 1967's Summer of Love, Beirut-born teen Dharma, runs away from his Muslim home and reinvents himself as a hippie poet-musician. Street-busking one day at an impromptu music jam, Dharma meets a lovely young hippie girl called Button. Love is in the air. Button and Dharma share a gorgeous, magical night at a huge music festival. But is this newfound love as perfect it seems?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles de Lint
    Release dateApr 24, 2012
    ISBN9780920623138
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    Charles de Lint

    Charles de Lint and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, and The Onion Girl, have earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.

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      Dharma - Charles de Lint

      Dharma

      A short story by

      Charles de Lint

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      Copyright 2007 by Charles de Lint

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      The Summer of Love hit Newford in '67, the same as it did pretty much every big city in North America. Kids flocked to the downtown core—which was kind of funny since sometimes collecting in the urban center was just the first step in their moving to some rural commune. I doubt they saw the irony in that. For the longest time, neither did I.

      I was a city boy, myself. I was born in Beirut, but we emigrated when I was five, before the bombing started, so I had only dim memories of my homeland. None of them matched the bombed-out streets that appeared from time-to-time on TV news broadcasts. So far as I was concerned, I was a North American, but my shock of black hair and the dark cast of my skin lumped me in with the blacks and Puerto Ricans, along with all the limitations that being part of a minority entails.

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