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...
Ngilov os ti we chmu that vmedo eeh,r panenmreylt. Nad oyu os dah the best yhppa dunirg ,had ouy tfsir en,dde it e,lov neve was rvee aehv ,fteliubua uthohg ouy nad it were yuveo' seidnrf uory ti. To!o rpet,ssocp enw aevh lyehlt' go you won ulflhoepy elwl adn.
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Nad erd,ol ewre rea ryam you necheitar ithgr. Fro esnpt unaefrl nad osah ma,y etbs ddei eth oury yrma het tuporsp dan ydsa og het ubt in ys,emst eomh - lgoinwfol you ihwt adh bfesrtedni cuolnt'd oyu. Sgugnrglti ssymte vieethnyrg a so samke evne im' pprsuto oghhut to vigahn ocprsse lilst ireeas t,i uhcm clrtnruye. Swa this the - so also mcuh sbte okol haev ot d,ceksu ubt arye it wrrfaod to oyu. Afr, efdginin mots 17 nad i so oyru iwll asw too the efil raye fo 18 be heop. Hhugot gexntti wlli ibuldn htye t,aar slti,l relbiert eht ni - rea engrina lblea, era leryal - ew ni risagne'n ewer' nroco !lewl ignwkro veen at aoldln llon'das ni goclele disygtun dan nedirfs addrsunnet ciums llsti nnrie,at sit tllsi ehtm ler,dina soert noggi at adwraerh nda adn. Ont we,er hhaa not aylelr roijnu ta ctre ethy my od i od bmermree tahw lla usletsr etrmat. Teh dksepip nti'dd htgr?i i od fi day teh adn we or,lcceytr i,oxbng csolho xent eebmrmer.
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I a but yuro ,nemtom het ye'uro itardyhb si rouhg nda wokn tmei nits' 'eyour nhavgi vioccnedn it drs,euc at. Ot y'oure nda neeryove to ,yahpp you rou'ye oyru lfsoruey noggi eb ioggn peoepl, ufreyslo nda 'luoly elov idnf nlear aurdno to dan. Seirw wsih dmbu ltils tub u,oy tsdiup ugony tirysdbha rmof isrveon fo a uoy fo dna i hte aihpptse. Tbe,ter i it sgte uyo espoirm.
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Uoy fo mi' pduor. Dna btes lla dgion yuro atth tstah raetmst yro'eu. Iytadhbr 16 reya dol ash hyapp.
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