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Buford12 t1_iynf45c wrote

As far as preindustrial complexions are concerned it was not acme that teens had to worry about it was smallpox. If you read 17th 18th century literature and they refer to a person having a swarthy complexion that was code to referring to smallpox scaring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

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