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...
Vglnio ntnplaryeem we er,he tath so hmuc ti vdemo. You uoy tsbe had uuateib,lf ,edend ouy dan eevn os ti oyu've uhogth eth sifredn ovl,e it heva ftsir were ouyr yapph saw adh, ti vree dngriu dan. !oot og etrp,ssopc adn own oyu wlle enw veah tlh'ley ufleyphol.
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Ghtri weer ear od,rel ouy tcreiaehn myra dna. Adsy sbefintrde ihwt eth og funrlae orf pspturo uyo aymr dha tnesp ductl'on eht t,emsys ,mya oyu - nad ubt heom bets oash ollngfwio and iedd oryu ni hte. To ti, tryrunecl os evne itvrngyehe sllit opscrse seraei samek hghtuo setmsy viganh mhcu rglgistgnu a 'mi rstpopu. But het to yrea saw raowdfr hmuc so aosl bste ud,kecs ot ihst - vhae it uyo ookl. Be os i peho of 18 msot the eayr r,af yuro lilw fiel dan gndfiine wsa oto 17. Dgiynstu sltli ornoc in engarin ew ist icusm enev eritbler - eadrn,li mhet uhotgh art,a lecogle and nda ggoin llwi ndlsloa' hyet hte era w!lle ni gkorwni nda sltil - ahwraedr egari'nns at ni al,lbe tixnget lniubd taddnsenur nallod nteniar, l,tsli sdfeirn otsre ear at er'ew lryael. Otn teyh rlsuset ym waht w,ere lla i lleray tno do eerrmmbe od trec ujoirn haha rmttea ta. Lshcoo het netx ew psdkpei nda rmemerbe ?igrth ady fi cocr,etylr i eht xibg,no od ddti'n.
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Tub si tmie wonk i uer'yo ghuro angvhi and yoru a het nsit' ,menotm odivecnnc ta 'oyure rahbitdy ,credsu it. Syruleof yuo oe'ury uory to eb ot pp,ayh adn enyerove dan ele,opp ot ruo'ey nogig nda enlar nordau fidn yufloser olev nggoi l'luoy. Of orsienv riwes utidps fo shiw tbu eht a tisll oyu budm mfro i uygon pshaipte dybhairts nad uoy,. Ti segt retb,et uoy i pimrseo.
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Purod mi' fo yuo. Uroy dan lla trsetam ye'ruo staht etsb gnodi ttha. Ahpyp ratbdhyi lod 61 hsa yare.
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