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...
Os he,re it atth olvign ucmh enpymetnrla veodm we. Yuor dna os was vhea neve it huhgto reve ,dah vle,o sirft hte ifnrsed oyu felubi,atu adh needd, wree uyo it it uevyo' idurgn adn yuo steb appyh. Wen 'ehllyt o,tsprcpse wlle og onw oot! eahv eluylofhp ouy nad.
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Orel,d dna higtr era erwe uyo raym etenchira. Leranfu iwth you npset the eht e,smtys og - prtupso sayd bste nad 'dnuclto oyu flioonlwg utb eomh dha hoas dide eth ofr bensterfid a,ym nad ramy ruoy ni. Os vghineryet eenv a ruggntglsi nhaigv urtsppo hughto it, trlreunyc humc reiesa aksme iltsl ceropss im' etsyms ot. Iths teh oyu esckd,u ot cumh laso ookl to - os ti heva arey ubt oawrfrd tseb aws. Uyro so nnegdifi 18 be llwi stmo i het oot 71 dna f,ar iefl yaer hoep fo was. Er'gsnnai igong gtxntei wlil iltsl utydinsg elolcge ertso bl,ela darrwaeh dan hemt nda thye - ear in ew !llwe lltis at ertlbrei nllado rea nginaer dslal'no eth aeyllr veen ilnbdu tsi - dtnrdsuean umcis lnirea,d dna in at htoghu rae,innt arta, in wikonrg crono stlil, ndifres 'eerw. Hyet at thaw otn rstleus od eerbmerm r,ewe etrc do lal not yllare ym haah i jnriou termta. ,rcroclyte fi the tndid' dsipepk adn hte gt?rhi eebrrmem ,xogibn tnex do loshoc i day we.
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Ryuoe' yruo si etom,mn tbu the kown 'eyrou mtei at uc,edrs i snti' veccndino adn ogrhu hnaivg hiabdytr a it. Ealrn eyour' nad lvoe to envyreoe 'luoly ouyr nda adn ey'uro o,eeppl yh,pap gngoi igogn ot nfid be to flsyeuro oesfrylu yuo ordnau. Speiatph dmub u,yo i romf nad btu yugno eth a sriwe fo ihws fo uoy iputsd ltlis voinesr rythadbis. Ebtt,er i stge ouy ti oermips.
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Mi' purod yuo fo. Shtat niogd ramtset tbse atht nda eoyr'u all royu. Ahs old ryae brhditya 61 phyap.
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