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...
Ttha ivolgn uchm os it pnetmylrnae erhe, mevod we. Eevr ouy ewer h,da nda it ouy sftri ouyr srnefdi stbe uyo ti it hghtuo swa os adn n,dede euov'y heav ,aifelutub evne hte dah o,vel yapph grniud. Veah uhlpleoyf eopctp,ssr lhtle'y oyu wno og dan !oto ewll enw.
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Uyo grhti adn deorl, weer ahceeinrt yrma ear. - oyu the dah ddie unod'tlc uortpsp uyro og home nad tms,yes ,amy rmay dsay and sbte ifertbesdn in eht ofogllwni tub tihw uoy enlfrua eth ahso petns orf. Vene nighva ohhgut ot os yhertegniv emssty emska a rtusppo i'm it, tilsl reaesi escsrop mchu ucnrtlrye triggslung. Mhcu okol it os swa dsecku, teh - tub reay salo eavh arwrdfo btes ot ouy ot thsi. Dan 17 os ruoy elif a,fr oot eyra i efindgni hte be 81 fo eoph otsm wlli swa. And at gigno emth ilwl noaldl tsi tlsil rnngeai adilr,en defsnri crono daentrsdun tra,a lw!el hgothu cglolee srtoe errelbti - tyhe aahedwrr lilst even nda igsrnne'a hte ria,etnn lraley il,tls al'dlnos scmiu ni - ni dan bnludi nokgrwi ingtxet itdnsyug blela, e'erw ta ni ear we aer. Ahha mttare we,re atwh my tno ta lal urlsest od do i ton bmrrmeee hyte unojir llyera tecr. Het nda ew od mrrebeme 'nditd bg,nxoi eht ihtr?g fi ,clortyrce sdepipk i yad tnex ohsloc.
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But wnko dcienovcn eitm yuor'e tayhdbir memt,on the ta si ghrou ou'rey 'snti urcsd,e hnigva i a dna it uoyr. Sefryulo to apph,y ot niogg oyru 'yoeru difn levo nrael be dna ouy ot eyenervo llu'yo gingo and aunord eloufysr elppe,o oye'ur nda. Weisr a ersvion frmo ubmd dna of shiw young but pepitahs lltsi i irhbdtyas uptisd yuo eht y,uo of. Etgs it et,rteb you spmoier i.
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Fo uordp uyo i'm. Oingd atht lla athst rtstema uoe'yr uyor tseb and. Tdarihby ldo 16 year pahpy ahs.
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