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From: larrabee@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracy Larrabee)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: tan lines
Message-ID: <1832@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 05:13:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 05:13:39 1986
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Reply-To: larrabee@decwrl.UUCP (Tracy Larrabee)
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I enjoy my tan lines very much--if only for their shock value.  I am so
pale that no one would believe I had a tan (even at my brownest) if I
didn't have the ability to "prove" it with a tan line or two.  I have had
some friends with skin cancer, so I am nervous enough about the UV that I
mostly try to avoid too much exposure, though (so I may just have to
remember the good old days of stark skin contrast).

Leafing through the average magazine with naked or semi-naked women in it
(Life, Sports Illustrated, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, and, oh yeah,
those *other* magazines) would lead any thinking person to believe that
current fashion does not hold tan lines to be sexy, but I guess I got my
training in the old-fashioned days.