Dear FutureMe,
hey! happy eighteenth birthday!! i’m actually writing this on the eighteenth instead of our actual 16th birthday, but it’s more or less two years anyway. how are things? the last couple of weeks have been really ******, and i think i’m finally slipping out of denial. i miss grandad.
yesterday we were at mary and catherine’s for a bit, they’re both looking a lot older. maybe that’s just me. anyway, how was australia? only like 75 days to go for me!! i’m doing work experience at the gaelscoil right now, it’s cool. nicola referred to us both as the adults in the room and it made me giggle.
are you still friends with bella, tara, tiernan, conor etc? i still hate bella’s friends but what can you do. are you in a relationship yet? how were the junior cert results? there’s still no clarification on when they’re coming out. i just hope i do well in science. do you still want to study neuroscience?
i hope donall and grainne are good. hopefully mary and catherine are still around, i’m very much aware of mortality at the moment. if they aren’t, i’m so sorry. i don’t want to go to school tomorrow. we have to do boxing or something lol, would rather die.
i hope life is treating you well.
you (aged 16 and one day)
Epilogue
1 day later
16 year old ash, you would not believe how much has changed. those 75 days until you go to australia? not only did they go quick, but we ended up...
Eh,re aptyrmelenn uhmc vloign os htat we odvme ti. Hgouht it the ueaul,bitf bste enev and d,ah aevh hppya yuo ,ndeed eewr ti oyu os vol,e reev adn oyu it asw royu esndrfi trsif dnuirg dha 'veouy. Enw elwl uyo s,troescpp nwo lyhupfeol have ehlyl't nda !too go.
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Uoy lr,ode and teehnarci grith mray ear weer. Hitw in uopsprt uld'tcon dna dide tseb yuor - uyo yads saoh uoy oemh yamr pestn nollowigf go teh utb het dha smeyst, adn eth a,my dtibefnres ofr fnrueal. Gothhu sorcspe tngrsglgui veen ghvnai t,i ltlis sakme mi' vtiergyenh esiear crlyurnte uchm a ot sopptru so ymests. Sthi uoy oardfrw swa to ubt hcum ot het - ti eyra vhae os ,uskecd sebt kool aols. Ouyr os 17 aws ohpe be tmso will 81 ayre efli ifiedngn i adn het of a,fr oto. Aardwrhe cumsi tlsli e!llw nie,trna meth isa'nrgne dallno dnsatendur ubndil nreidfs we reitrleb dna kgnoirw 'rewe in atr,a - tli,ls niogg at tignxet ingrnea ltlsi lrelay rteso ytndsugi and crnoo lgeelco rae eht its lnidra,e bl,lae vnee - era illw nad thouhg ni ad'solnl ta ni htey. Etyh lal tmeart ermbreme ont do ahwt haah sltuers erwe, ym ta elalyr od i ecrt nto irjonu. Dya ew skpiped eolrct,ycr nbigxo, dna i do txen ndti'd fi lcosho teh ebeerrmm het ?right.
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Wkno ,resduc ubt uhogr vnigah at mtei i uroy is mentmo, er'oyu i'snt it ihratydb ureyo' a cnoivdenc nad the. To to ernoeevy nda iogng 'eroyu nda ngoig yuro ealnr olve ot le,eopp nad uyo oandur pyahp, fndi 'ouery eolsfruy y'lulo oeryfsul be. Gnyuo nioresv the uo,y mfro and iudtps syribhdat pihpaest ouy a fo tbu i fo ltisl hwis umdb wirse. Tges i uyo trbte,e it eposirm.
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Pduro of i'm you. Ndiog and tatsh all taht sbet r'yuoe retstma oyru. Eary sah ppayh 16 lod ryithdab.
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