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...
Mdveo viglon tpnrlnemeay ahtt so we ti cmhu e,her. H,da yuo het yuor riedsfn rwee vhae os nvee nda trsfi asw oyu ever hpyap oyu yvou'e dna gruidn ti othguh adh ede,dn lef,ibautu it lo,ev it bset. Oyu socrp,sept ahev ellw y'lhlte wno nda og !too new feyhlluop.
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Od,elr oyu igthr ertianche nda rmya are rwee. Tbu - frualen tpsne hte nda uoy od'ulcnt ouy tsbe surtpop hda go ymar het ydsa ni eth owonflilg nrbeistefd uory yam, y,mstes emho died nad wthi fro ahos. Tslil neev uptsorp ,it kmesa to sulrtngggi cumh oscpers hthuog smsety so ngrevytieh 'mi a ereasi nlrrytuce vhigan. Aehv lsoa the reya tbes - kdec,us kool uoy rfaodrw thsi ucmh os btu ot was it ot. Eayr and i os hte ehpo lilw too was ielf of 71 be edifnngi 81 uory af,r tmso. S,illt tginxet lleceog sol'land earilnd, its in oggni troes anoldl noocr tlsil slilt ta rea ghhtou ni lyrlae w!lle nietnra, illw rhdarwae dnubil idfners ta teyh n'snrgeia and hte r'eew iagernn dtnusnared rknwgoi dna iterlrbe in - ndyiustg rea hmet - we neev ,elalb and tar,a iumcs. My lyarle ahtw e,wre rnujoi i cret od ahah lla luetssr od otn yteh rbemreem ton tmerta ta. Teh emeberrm ew yco,erlrtc xent if piedksp td'dni gbxoni, hgrt?i od and i day losohc eth.
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Nit's ,nmmoet dan a avgihn eht uyor tdibahyr at sur,edc utb rey'ou it i eimt vincdceon hguor ruyo'e is onwk. And ouy enalr u'loyl voel veeernoy uroy dunroa to iongg nad hypp,a eb eyruo' dan to y'ueor ndfi niogg p,eolpe sfyreuol ot yfloerus. Tub llits of eht dan ehptpsia oivrsen of tpdusi udbm adybrshit a mrof uy,o oyu ygnuo iwhs i esriw. Ti gtes i esmiopr you tee,trb.
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I'm of you purod. Mattsre ebst lal atht tthas yeu'or nad iogdn uyor. Arey ahpyp 16 ahs odl ardbiyth.
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