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It's easy to understand why primitive peoples worshipped the sun. The sun is an incandescent, awe-inspiring heavenly body. It is at the center of our universe. It is essential to all life on earth. But if we were a few million miles closer to its fiery surface, we would be instantly incinerated. Even from its lofty spot 93 million miles away, the sun causes permanent injury to earthlings, including wrinkled, scarred, sagging skin, premature aging, and deadly skin cancer. The sun's powerful rays can, and do kill. Our great-grandparents considered tanned women and men unrefined; weathered skin marked only field hands or common laborers. Swimsuits covered proper sunbathers neck to ankles, and respectable women carried parasols to shield their alabaster skin from the sun. Anthropologists can't explain why, but today's sun worshipers think a deep tan makes them look prosperous, even "healthy." They know that exposing themselves to ultraviolet sun rays is literally playing with fire, but they do it anyway. Why? . . . . |
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 Writing Sample Copyright © 2000 Lois Seeligsohn |
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