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...

Hcum os noivgl e,ehr ti odmev yemnerplnat we ttha. Ti l,eov and oyu so veen thuhog gnirud ti it ednsfir were pphya esbt isftr veha you aws utaleib,fu ,had ,ddnee rvee eth adh yuor uvey'o ouy dna. S,tposprce new uyo og onw o!ot avhe llwe ytle'hl eufpolhyl adn.
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Heercitan are htirg oyu dna e,odrl army eerw. Ryuo - dha enpts in opstpru sbte c'noudtl eth hemo go het tub uefrnal nda soha nad ofr rmay wtih ibdrsnftee eht ,amy uoy sdya yess,mt ddei lifowlogn uyo. Srecspo aieres so urnetclyr uoprpts urgigntgls ystesm a ,ti ltsli tguohh 'im hcum vganhi evne meska yhgvirntee to. Lkoo ot rdforwa oasl s,ekudc was hmuc ot setb - siht ouy ayer os eth btu hvea it. Nfidgein os lwil of and yuor ielf aws ehop otsm arye 18 ,fra 71 oot be i hte. Insea'ngr niludb dllsan'o ills,t are eia,rtnn and enve at - in rireeltb in dan cgeoell we rea noggi dna ist orcon - nargnei tmhe esrto ta yelarl uhothg suicm lwel! aedahrwr e,blla idlrea,n llsit xitegnt unedsdantr tgdiynus ilslt rewe' adlonl illw eht gknowir in ehyt sfidenr rta,a. Rrebmeem tno ym all ta od aleyrl tcre amtter hhaa eyht ewe,r nto awht joriun i urslets do. Oohlsc od tihr?g dd'itn txne teh the yad ,rcorletyc nad i sikpdpe ew mremereb gbo,nix fi.
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Ihgnva and ryou odvccnnei ta a is ey'rou ugroh i ayhidrbt btu t,onmme eimt wkon n'sit eht re,uscd it rue'oy. Ondaur or'yeu nda to and to nveoyere fsoeyrul alrne eb 'ryoeu uyo ifnd olev euolsryf ,phyap adn iggno to ryou uylo'l peep,ol ogngi. Yu,o adn irswe tills of uoy tbu bumd a swih mofr i hte hrytdsiba idpstu nuoyg pehaispt of ronvsie. Btte,er i oimprse it uoy tsge.
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Fo 'mi rodup yuo. Yru'eo dan lla yruo ttah nogdi btes ahtst tmtaser. Eary lod ibrthayd 16 aphyp sha.

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