The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.

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Fair enough in the south, but who needs them in the land of the midnight sun?

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He advised people with red hair and fair skin to take particular care to avoid sunburn and to protect their skin by avoiding the sun in the middle of the day, seeking shade and covering up with a T-shirt and sunglasses and using sunscreen of at least factor 15.

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In any case, it's fair to say that no one can read his book and ever again think of Florida as the blessed, sun-soaked paradise of resilient myth.

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