I have grown up in the company of pears — or their remains — because breakfast with a perfect pear is something The Boss starts his day with, almost without exception.

As cars carried their thousands of passengers to footy games and families blissfully rode mountain bikes beneath the falling leaves of deciduous trees in the countryside on a magnificent autumn weekend, I pumped a purposely made playlist full of songs about revolutions and uprisings, pain and empowerment on my car stereo.

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