Becky, thank you for educating as many as possible. Skin cancer scares me - pale and Irish and red-headed - I fear it's just round the corner for me. My cousin and our aunt had it. I never got a tan but some burns growing up.

My son was so pale, that as a year old child, the pediatrician tested him for leukemia on her own without telling and alarming me. It was negative, at 18 he is still pale. One of my black students told me I was the whitest white lady he's ever seen. We are pale.