CHAPTER 9 Once Upon a Time, The End

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It's now over 20 years since Baz Luhrmann gave the world the hugely inspirational ‘Everybody's Free’. You may know it better as the ‘Wear Sunscreen’ song.

Released in 1999, the song – originally an essay by Mary Schmich – gave us various bits of advice on how to live our best life and avoid all the shit that gets in the way of experiencing happiness.

With lyrics inspiring us to enjoy our youth, to imagine, to worry less, to remember compliments and forget insults, ‘Everybody's Free’ moved a generation to dance, to NOT read beauty magazines and to do something each day that scares us. It encouraged ...

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