“People will come in and be just...
“People will come in and be just as dark as they can be--and they’ll say, ‘Oh, I’m so white.’ ”
--Mark Brammeier, manager of a Westside tanning salon, discussing the obsessive sun-machine worshipers known in the industry as tanorexics.
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