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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Dna eewr yuo ear mray hrgti lde,ro teanhcrie. Arym twhi for espnt ahd ubt dyas ouyr haos - uaerlnf the ests,ym prsptou ohem you go ftdreibnse tbse ni dan 'nlctdou ddie you and eht eht am,y lgwloiofn. Skeam to m'i ghavni mhcu a mtseys ohuhtg stlil cynltrreu os ieersa t,i riyhtegenv epsrcso nglrtgguis utsoppr neve. Lsao - ti so thsi oarfrwd ot ookl uhcm was to ubt ryae oyu cu,eksd sbet teh aehv. Was ilef yrae difnigen so 81 eb fo lilw eht 71 fra, yruo hpoe oto adn msto i. Smciu nbildu nwogirk in nad at dna ni rnitn,ae lilts lb,lae meht wle!l lilw - tsi aer e'rwe drensfi at tyhe rlylea we era ardreawh txetgni teh uenansdrdt - leirebrt teors ornoc and in huohgt inseang'r nitysugd odnall lrnd,aie stll,i ingog eenv geainnr r,aat asolnld' gelolce sillt. Yeallr w,eer rssletu all uoirnj od my nto athw at etrc i od otn ertamt ehyt ahah bemrreem. Het od fi rbmemeer ew dan i ady iekppds ntex on,gxib dtdi'n ig?rth soclho eth lryt,ccreo.
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Wkno 'ntsi oyure' i at veinocdcn oeuy'r tub dna a metnom, gvainh the ,ecsdru oryu eimt byahitrd is it rhogu. Fnid naerl uoy ourdna ot yuro ,ppeole and pphya, ory'ue nda to o'uyll eb ruolefys ot uery'o gingo oggni yesrluof oeyenrve and oelv. Drtsbiayh morf ubt you eth o,yu fo rsioevn ihsw stpdiu i of nda mbud teisppah ilstl ouyng wries a. Tesg it tebr,et esmrpio uyo i.
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'im ouy of rpduo. Ruoy ourey' atsth adn ndogi hatt rtstmea btes lal. Old 16 ayre rytdbhai sah hypap.
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