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Advice for the youth

Advice I could give my younger self.

"Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young", commonly known by the title "Wear Sunscreen",[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen#cite_note-Open_Culture-1) is an essay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay) written as a hypothetical commencement speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commencement_speech) by columnist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_(periodical))Mary Schmich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich), originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune).[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen#cite_note-2)