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...
Ti re,he we nametnylerp dvmeo hcum os nilgov tath. Ti aws os uyo you vhea touhhg ti dan 'veuoy edned, ,adh ouy ,ovel the fridesn sbet ti weer phpya hda adn yoru sfrit dginru enev tifuluea,b eevr. Fhuelyplo ouy wen ,stpsocper hvea lelh'yt wno o!to dan og lwel.
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Aerinhcet ithgr ayrm oe,drl nad yuo ewer era. Het uoy - ptsen dedi htwi adh fro sday dna utb og het rbeesidfnt dna eafunlr teh ahos ni uyor ouy ya,m utcl'dno btse ,ysmtse eomh wfnoilglo orsuptp mary. A i'm mssyet cmhu ot ecrtynlur kmesa i,t enve gtsurggiln os thouhg oupstrp etghvinyre israee cpssoer aghniv lstil. Kolo rwfadro aws erya mhcu - heav to itsh ti ot also edkcu,s but yuo tseb so the. Wlli ohep be nda 17 yare fiel i 81 omts too afr, eht saw yruo of efnnidig os. Nad at and stlil tlisl yeth we aeyllr hte ohuhtg bulidn hewdarar rnesaing' rta,inen ellcgoe enve ni wre'e silt,l ieanngr - era etsro ,lable tsi itxegtn daos'lnl - lndaol ni roonc rae ia,rdenl illw nigrokw ltreibre mteh in gnigo uicms a,atr fsnired nndedsarut adn !lelw at usnitdgy. Ew,er nto i do at tecr haha unjoir teyh aleyrl sesltur tetamr do twah not lal rbereemm ym. Dna n,gxbio dya the rr,occeytl we do i ntxe scoloh dspeipk ebemmrer 'dtnid h?rgit fi eht.
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Dna bairhtdy hte vocecndni i n'tsi ta anvhig emn,mto uroy ownk time a ruhog it yo'ure utb oy'eru ueds,cr is. Ot yuro ndfi ouy vnoyeere ot ondaur ,payph oelrufys dan orye'u and ro'uye to sloeyufr le,epop be erlna lluoy' olev nggio ognig adn. Ibdsrhyat ,ouy mubd nda utb ouy pudsti stehpipa sltli a mrof fo yugno i swhi nsvrieo fo hte rseiw. It etgs e,brtte you i oemprsi.
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Oyu 'mi puord of. Yeu'or tatesrm dan sttha uyro ebst ginod lla ttha. Yare ppyha ash tyidabrh 61 ldo.
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