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Children of the dark

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Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary sensitivity to sunlight that ordinary sun exposure results in the development of skin cancer at a very early age.

Children with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) can only play outdoors safely after nightfall

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