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...
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Uyo rea dro,le rtigh reew amyr dan crhaitnee. Emoh nad setb eth ryma ni ihtw ahd ohsa go idde ofr uoy laeunfr ostpupr eht ,yma uyor ymsest, tuldcon' gfllooiwn teh you birdetesfn adn - btu yads sentp. Skame mi' ienrevygth lislt hotguh eltcunryr neev psreocs t,i mhcu tsiguggnlr so a orpsput reesai ot vinhga semtys. Ot eayr sloa mhcu ,sueckd ot - fawrrod so hte aws lkoo it utb ebst aveh shti oyu. 81 peho mots fo asw efil so fra, eb i 17 idiengfn oury yrae illw oot eth and. In adn xegttni in tranien, ngnaeir e,llba enve ldnlao yteh senifdr ls'onald - tsl,li erw'e them lislt wll!e itgduyns igrkwon idbunl gloceel ni nda tara, at ta ew mcsui learyl eriteblr nad crono inogg the earadhwr thgohu llwi serot tis ear lsilt enga'nirs era - drn,laie rdesudatnn. Hyte do ym not at tsruesl tno od lal reylla hhaa iunroj i rmrmbeee ertc e,rwe tmtera awht. The l,cretrcyo hit?rg ady we fi het do olscoh sippdke rbrmemee nad exnt dn'dti i g,oibnx.
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Ti a cenicnovd i yadhbtri at gruoh nwko ueryo' ubt ,tmemon teh 'tins eimt hagnvi er'you nad uoyr si r,dcuse. Lveo to lppee,o onigg yuo indf nda ot yhapp, ginog to rsfolyeu and nda eyovrnee laenr be flsruoye raondu r'eouy yruo 'loylu 'ueoyr. Uidtsp tbu u,oy a ersiw ishw tsill haeppist ofmr rnsioev yugno tdsbhiayr hte bmud adn i fo of uyo. Retetb, estg ti sioerpm ouy i.
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Yuo m'i pruod fo. Ashtt oury oidgn lla best nad atth eu'ryo etmrast. Ldo has hppya yrhbatdi ryae 16.
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