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Everybody’s Free To Wear SUNSCREEN By Mary Schmich

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Everybody’sFree To Wear

SUN

SCR

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By Mary Schmich

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If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists. Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97,

wear sunscreen

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I will dispense this advice Now...

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in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Nevermindyou will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded.

But trust me,

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Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve algebra equations by chewing bubblegum.

Or worry, but know that worrying is

as effective as trying to solve algebra

equations by chewing bubblegum.

How much possibility lay before you;And how fabulous you really lookedYou are not as fat as you imagineDon’t worry about the future -

How much possibility lay before you;

And how fabulous you really looked

You are not as fat as you imagine

Don’t worry about the future -

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How much possibility lay before you;

And how fabulous you really looked

You are not as fat as you imagine

Don’t worry about the future -

REALTH

EIN YOUR LIFE ARE APT TO

TROUBLES

be things that never crossed your

WO

RR

IED M

IND

The kind that you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday

blindside

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hearts

be reckless with other peoples’

Do one thing everyday that scares you.. Sing D

ON

’T

DO

N’T

put up with people who are reckless with yours.

waste your time on jealousy.

Floss.

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Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind

The race is

in the end it’s only with yourself&

Remember compliments you’ve received, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how

L O N G ,

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Keep your old

LOVE LETTER tthrow away your old bank statements......

S t r e t c h

The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your

Some of the most interesting year olds I know still don’t. 40

LIFE.

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Get p

lent

y CALCIUMof

you’ll miss them when they’re gone...Be kind to your knees:

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M

aybe

you’ll d

ance the funky chic

ken

on y

our 7

5th

wedding anniversary

May

be yo

u’ll marry, maybe you w

on’t. Maybe you’ll have children, m

aybe yo

u won’t

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Enjoy your body: use it every way you can.Don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it.

Read the directions

even if you don’t follow them...

Whatever you do don’t

congratulate

berate yo

urself eith

er.Your choices are half chance: so are everybody else’s.

Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Dance!It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own

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UGLY UGLY

DO NOT READ

they will only make you feel

MAGAZINES

BEAUTY

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And I’ll be there just helping you out whenever I can.

Brother & sister.

we’ll make it through.

Tog

eth

er

Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there.

Someday a spirit will take you & guide you there.

I know you’ve been hurting but I’ve been waiting to be there for you.

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the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Get to knowYOUR PARENTS

you never know when they’ll be gone for good...

Be nice to YOUR SIBLINGS:

they’re your best link to your past

Understand that friends come & go...

&

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they’re your best link to your past

Understand that friends come & go...

the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

But w

ith a

prec

ious

few

you s

houl

d hol

d on

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle,

because

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Live in New York City once,

but leave before it makes you hard

Live in Northern California

but leave before it makes you soft

TRAVELAccept certain inalienable truths:

prices will rise, politicians will philander. You too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasise. That when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble,

And children respected their elders.

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But you never know when either one might run out.

And children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.Don’t expect anyone else to support you...

MAYB

E you’ll have a trust fund,

you’ll have a wealthy spouse

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Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth...

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you’re it will look 85. 40

Be careful whose advice you buy,but be patient with those who supply it.Be careful whose advice you buy,but be patient with those who supply it.

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But trust me on the SUNSCREEN...

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Brother & Sister.

Together we’ll make it through. Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there.

Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there.

I know you’ve been hurting but I’ve been waiting to be there for you.

And I’ll be there just helping you out whenever I can.

Everybody’s free. Everybody’s free.

Everybody to feel GOOD.

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