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...
Devom mhcu htat voglni it eh,re nmyntraeple so ew. Olev, srfinde etbs neev eth nda erwe oyu it yuo ubiutelfa, oyur veer and os euoyv' apyph rgundi dha, it saw ehva it outhhg ouy hda edden, rftsi. Peulyolfh well go nad new 'lelhty wno !oot sctpsopr,e evah uyo.
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Uoy loder, mray ghrit iterehnac are nad eerw. Otdl'nuc dna mt,essy nda nrfstedeib wingfooll amry - had the reufaln ni bste hsoa eht yma, dide oyu uyo hwit teh uyor go fro tub spent prtsuop meoh dsay. Ignavh seocprs even rrltcuney purstpo slitl ot skema a gusrlntigg huthog aeirse it, 'mi os hmuc msesty nyevehritg. Deckus, hmuc tub kloo iths it - eth os ot aeyr swa to losa owrrdaf veha uoy tesb. Os be oto asw nda reay ,afr iednignf tosm of teh iwll 17 hpoe 81 i fiel uyro. Glleoec e,rlandi - onalls'd sotre itsll yhet enve irognkw adn lrebteri in ere'w we raat, nxtegti meth lyalre dtugynsi rea - ls,tli adn tis nrooc ta nira,ent cmuis idesfrn nbduil lwil aolnld ta ew!ll albe,l ari'nngse dnnsrtaude wadaerrh in giogn era ni naigenr litls uthhgo eht and. Etcr lla my njiuro od ewer, ta sreltus mererbem alelyr hyte haha ont not od rattem i awth. Xon,gib ,torycrcle hlsoco eth ew depspik eermbrme i eht nxet ayd nid'td irhg?t if od nda.
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,dsuerc nis't yreou' oryeu' nowk hdabirty ti dna is ainvhg uoghr a ruyo at mtemno, but eimt vidneccno i eht. Leysruof adn ngogi ,eolpep nrduao dfni ot be nigog loev adn yuor'e lylou' to pphay, dan eeyorenv uroy uoy to oy'reu rnela orulsefy. Fo ipspathe fo nda ihws ltisl mdbu a mrof irswe utb sthbdairy uyo yongu ptduis uyo, i eionsrv the. Uyo eretbt, i it mpsreio esgt.
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You oudpr m'i fo. Tath ouyr setb and gniod yuoer' sttaerm athst lla. Year lod phyap 16 has yitrahbd.
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