A letter from Sep 18, 2022

Peaceful right?

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...

Aeenlrymtpn devmo uhcm os ew rehe, tath inolvg ti. Asw ,ndeed uoy dna dh,a ahd gindru ti so ouy ahev loe,v neev adn ypaph ti fluauie,bt hte enifsrd hhguto reve ti uyro o'veyu sbte reew irfst uoy. Trocspp,es ylte'lh uyeophllf nda og now t!oo oyu enw eavh lwle.
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Amry thirg eewr ear nda oyu hniaeetrc oder,l. Og dysa and ,yam eohm dah reualfn eddi espnt oprtpus uyo oyu yrou eht eht ni sbte tbinrsdfee orf ihtw hte dna tyesms, nllfogwio ryma - tub ohas c'ldntuo. Ilslt othhug vighan enevythrig hucm ksema 'im eseria so osprsec ppsrotu yrnrltcue tgnugrgisl even a ot eymtss ,it. - ebts ku,csde to loko tbu to asw reya ti uchm losa so teh arrowdf hsti aevh uyo. Lwli 17 most and ifle so the uyro of ar,f i peoh difeginn raye asw be 18 oot. Ibreerlt lltis, rae itlls in we ocron tiunygds and miusc uothgh at ta ni iwll iefnrsd in tdusdennar arat, tsi llw!e osret ggion l'ndasol aer nrenat,i xtgneit mteh lnaold anrnieg the ibdnul slilt - gcleloe l,dranie - and 'ewre ayrlle gnwkrio rrdawahe rsiaeg'nn hety ,lealb dna enev. Do aahh do ,erwe tehy etamrt i rcet nto waht mebemerr urjoin tssurel at my tno lal lrylea. Ereebmrm yad hlosco ni'tdd i if hte igno,xb dspepik hte ew od cycerrotl, ?ihtrg dna entx.
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Ucedr,s iagvhn it rtybhadi nkwo si uoyr iemt ,nmteom vnoideccn a hte 'stni adn ury'oe ta tub ohugr i eyo'ur. Gigon nggio be nda dan rnauod elsrfouy ifnd yoru rlyesfuo 'yuoll apy,ph ouy eevynero epo,ple lrnae ot eu'roy ot to dna ue'yor loev. Het u,yo whsi utb of litsl yaihrtbds a dumb adn oyu neivosr i diptus iwesr omfr unogy ppaeihst of. Ti tet,reb pesmroi tesg i uyo.
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Ouy udrpo of mi'. Diong tthas atth ueoyr' stemtar btse adn lla rouy. Raye dol rbayhdti 61 hsa apphy.

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