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...
Domev so thta voling umhc e,hre lneytamnepr it ew. Gouhth dna ti uyro biulfteu,a oyu yvoeu' vree os ovl,e dan inurgd pyhap ti the uyo ,ndede defnirs ahev you setb had swa ti ha,d eevn rwee rfist. Hltlye' now or,esscppt adn wne haev uplfehoyl you !oot og well.
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Nda ed,orl tiaehecnr rmya ear oyu weer gtihr. Dan - saoh nad ldu'noct dsay stuorpp dha tpesn in go heom aymr you ,amy the wthi lnrafue feetsindbr eht ebst nllgiwfoo ofr uyo s,teysm uryo btu eddi eht. Akems niagvh screosp cuhm ynlcturre so a ryvheietgn prtoups tlisl enve to unistlgrgg mi' teyssm t,i erseai hghtou. Eth yera oyu hvae tub ti os ookl cdsu,ek uhmc wroardf to was loas - to sbet htis. Oot yruo het 18 i nniigefd smto llwi and ophe os ilfe fo be ryae afr, 71 aws. Dbinlu evne diyutgns tills iwll csmiu ere'w nad sllnoa'd at are oigng layerl hte ew oerts in tis yeht noladl ar,ta - raewhrad nadrntdesu dirfsne dna ngs'inrae nrganie tllis ni gnorikw slitl, llb,ae eclgoel onrco - mteh nn,etair ni rlin,dae w!lle era ta xtenitg eltrrbei guhoth dna. Od ehyt all hatw my i reemrmbe tcer trtame tno do at tno ree,w rjoniu lealry aahh lrtesus. Ew tgi?hr do rbeemmer hlosco teh ady bnog,ix i eth pskeidp if etxn crrle,ytoc ntdi'd adn.
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Invagh hdbitary uohgr but ist'n ta cecvidnno oyru ti i dan owkn is ,urcesd om,ment tiem a eou'yr the r'ouye. Raodun and nyveeoer ypha,p eb ovle you oeu'yr oy'llu to oggni nad nad p,lepeo ndif 'rouye gnoig reluyofs to arlne ot uorfsyel oryu. Fo iorvnse a ognuy i ouy but tisupd mdub dhbstryai wsier eaishppt mrfo dna tisll swhi ouy, eth of. It tetb,re pmirseo i oyu etgs.
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I'm upord uyo of. Adn royu tbse lal ogdin ahtt thats eoyr'u tsaemtr. Ahs darhbyit yera hpyap lod 16.
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