A letter from Sep 18, 2022

Peaceful right?

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...

So ioglvn ew modev eerh, uhcm apyltmernen ti ttha. Vol,e so and uyo ,hda yueov' dne,ed litaueubf, ouy dah yuor etbs gohhtu it eth even nda erev uigndr ouy ti desnfri frist erwe aveh ti hapyp swa. Yuo t,orspscep ely'thl go eavh elwl wno enw nda yupfloehl !too.
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Higtr rmay rnthcaeie eewr nda uoy odle,r are. Ma,y nda ofr hitw esbt and het yram nspte dedi ouy - shoa hte dha oprtpsu but emoh oyu ni the ruoy go ,ystsem uanlref efrndebsit octn'dlu ayds igwlolofn. Elcunytrr i,t mekas eevn viagnh istll setyms os hothgu to grtgsugiln crssepo a eisrea mi' nvhgeyrtie uhcm upropst. Ecdks,u arye avhe ouy ti etbs saw siht btu - so loas ot the ot aowrfdr look hmuc. Fo lfei 18 teh eray 71 pheo egfnidin oto ar,f so be lliw otms i dan uryo asw. Rrdheaaw ni stneuddanr and tsroe - we're musci - n,irtean eht ndbliu sllti stlli ld'alnso era ta yeth oonrc at tl,ils utghho ew inokgrw txtgine aneirng ni rlreteib ndtuisgy ni er,dilna gcloeel dan ethm ,arta snegr'ina gingo nlolad rnfdesi labe,l ilwl rlleya e!llw veen nda sti are. Llyrae wtha not yteh ultssre ym i do ,rewe tecr onjrui nto od all beermerm etatmr ahha at. And ady pkipdse if do bermerme ew gboxni, eht nd'tdi choslo t,colrceyr i enxt g?rtih hte.
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Gavhin urogh at s'nti r'yuoe brhatydi ryuo tbu etim edicncvon nwok it 'oyuer a cu,dsre dan eth ,meotmn is i. Leov ofrlsuye and lol'yu ufoseyrl hpp,ay adn laner u'reoy eeevoyrn oyu dan to yoru nigog er'yuo nruoda to ot eb idnf ggnoi epoel,p. Nouyg of yuo dstipu i eorsnvi rfmo dbmu fo ,uyo nda hsaeppit dsyhiartb a tbu eht hsiw resiw lltsi. Ti gtse ouy opmisre i br,ttee.
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I'm oyu rodup fo. Ruyo lal oreu'y dan dgoni atsht atth estb sttearm. Pphya bhatriyd dol ash 16 arye.

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