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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Del,or dan yrma itarheenc eewr rae oyu gihtr. Yram eidd n'lctuod hsoa adsy hte - you the rnfuale setb fro oyu y,ma had smseyt, nestp iwglolofn twhi dna tdrsefneib og nda teh ni stopurp oehm tub uyor. Tlsil ti, cumh akmes ltringugsg so urrncylet guohht agnhvi sperosc rpsupto veen semtys eirhengytv a to eseair 'im. To yrae - sloa it ebts uek,cds os ofarwrd tub to stih asw ouy eht umhc hvae kolo. Yaer a,fr i omst lliw fiel oeph 17 nda oyru os iennigfd asw fo too be teh 81. Aisn'gnre el,bla oncro nda udbinl slt,il and nrit,nae mucsi ld,aienr ortse ta !lwle - lslti rngwkoi lwli isllt at adloln in mhet - erew' olsn'adl allrey neev atr,a inusdytg het eianngr we ndenusardt nda ni rea lietrebr ahaerdrw dfesrni tsi ehyt txiengt lclgeoe are in hoguht oiggn. Tno my rcte rwe,e do bmmreeer ylelar nto i eyth od haah tahw ulssert lla jiounr artmte ta. Rig?th xnet od eerrbmme goixnb, lchsoo ispekdp fi dna d'tind yad i we eht rtyecco,rl teh.
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Tmie si eht ti i ouyr at d,euscr a rhogu vdoeiccnn utb onwk iavhng itbahyrd your'e 'oyreu tsni' and oem,nmt. Dan evlo ot giogn undaor and alenr u'loyl be fidn apyhp, ouy ot oyur yofslrue veerneyo e'ryuo to oppel,e olesfury ue'yro dna gogni. Hwsi mbud gyonu esivonr tisll teh fo mofr o,yu of eirsw dsbhriayt a atppehsi and tdisup you utb i. Btete,r it smperio i uyo gset.
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Uorpd yuo of im'. Rsttmae ngiod all eyo'ur tsath yuor dna hatt tbes. Ayre odl 61 dhyatbri hsa ppayh.
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