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" I&amp;#x27;m on vacation in Maine right now&amp;amp;#8212;well, let&amp;#x27;s call it an almost vacation, since I am still posting here. And while I&amp;#x27;m having the most delicious and relaxing time [shout-out to Rococo Artisan Ice Cream!], I have one unsettling observation to report: Everywhere I look, I see teenage/college-age girls lying out and tanning themselves silly. Like, just lying on a chair in the sun at high noon and periodically flipping themselves like perfectly browned pancakes. Just like my friends and I did during my own Maine teenage-hood, only back then, we didn&amp;#x27;t know about skin cancer. In those days, practicing sun safety meant slapping on some SPF 4 sunscreen instead of straight baby oil and not turning lobster red after the first &amp;quot;lay-out&amp;quot; of the season. But if you did get a sunburn, your friends reminded you that it would fade into some really nice &amp;quot;base color.&amp;quot; Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because I spend all my time writing about sunscreen for women&amp;#x27;s magazines that I thought women today knew better, but it seems not all do. So here&amp;#x27;s my memo to all of you young ladies I see out there tanning (yes I am &amp;quot;young-ladying&amp;quot; you; I&amp;#x27;m OK with sounding like a mom because I am one): I promise you that sometime around your 30th birthday you will look back on your long days lying on that beach chair and wish you&amp;#x27;d brought a hat, an umbrella, a cover-up, and, yes, a whole jug of sunscreen&amp;amp;#8212;broad spectrum SPF 30+, to be exact. You&amp;#x27;ll realize that you were gorgeous even without that savage tan, probably even more so. And even if that were not the case, you could have used self-tanner to get that look without risking melanoma and creating the dark patches and faint fine lines now appearing on your face, the first visible evidence of how much UV exposure has aged your skin. Not to mention that you&amp;#x27;re seeing the first hints of...cringe...cleavage wrinkles. All my endless hours frying in the sun are 100 percent my biggest beauty regret, and I&amp;#x27;d do anything to take back all that UV exposure. I can imagine how much younger and more even my skin would look&amp;amp;#8212;now I have to work so hard with peels and antioxidants and fading creams just for a temporary and moderate improvement. However, I comfort myself with the knowledge that when I&amp;#x27;m 50, I&amp;#x27;ll be able to look back and say at least I saved myself 20 years of additional sun exposure by starting to wear sunscreen daily. Be honest: Are YOU still lying out in the sun and getting a tan? Do you think you&amp;#x27;ll ever stop? Do you feel invincible when it comes to aging and skin cancer? Please explain to us your thought process below!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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