When I say Stars, I mean the the actual Stars, not the Hollywood kind that people associate with beauty marks.

First Article:

"What do Cindy Crawford and Robert DeNiro have in common? According to scientists they are probably going to live longer than most of us. This increased longevity, according to a new study from King's College in London, has nothing to do with their star power but everything to do with their facial moles.

That's right, put away your wrinkle cream ladies because that little beauty mark that Marilyn Monroe first popularized now supposedly offers benefits that go far beyond good looks. Researchers discovered that people who have moles also have longer telomeres on their DNA. Your telomeres are the little end-caps on each chromosome that keep them from deteriorating so the longer your telomeres, the slower you age. People with moles also look about seven years younger than their smooth-faced friends. And the effect is magnified by the number of moles you have, the more the better, at least when it comes to their anti-aging benefits."

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Excerpt from the UK study;

"The effect is even quantifiable: if you have always resented your 100-plus moles, you can now take comfort from the fact that you will probably live six or seven years longer than someone with only 25 or so of the pesky things. That is, if a malignant melanoma doesn't get you first."

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I have thought this because my family has a long history of skin cancer associated with being riddled with beauty marks. If you can make it past 35 without getting cancer then you are golden in my family. All my Grandparents lived past 90 almost to 100 (Gram is 99 and still alive and almost fully independent.) She is a bit forgetful, but even my mom who is 80 and my sisters and myself look much younger than all of our friends (at least 10 years, but more noticeable the older you get) People comment on this all the time. Nobody in my family is bald, we get gray hair at around 60 and there are hardly any wrinkles on any of our skin no matter how old.

The reason I am posting this is because of the RH negative threads talking about ET blood and wanted to see if we could connect some more dots as to what makes us different. However I am not RH negative - My blood type is AB positive, 100% Italian and have sandy blonde hair, blue eyes and riddled with beauty marks all over my body, (not freckles and not raised moles, even though I have a few of those, but tiny black round spots all over.

This is the crazy part
When i was a kid I noticed that they looked like stars.. I can even make out constellations, but think it is coincidence. If you have them, then you know what I mean.

I am interested to learn what I have in common with you if you have them, and is your family like mine?
I just think it is funny that they did a study on this and there might be more than what meets the eye.