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...
Ew it ognilv htat odmev umhc her,e so atnnemyprle. Aws n,edde had erve you and oury so uevy'o nvee a,hd were nudigr uoy hypap uyo risdnfe ,itblfuuae dna tsrif ti aevh estb it it hohgut ov,le teh. Wlle uyo wne thely'l !oto yoelfpluh go vhae dan own cp,osretsp.
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Rae ramy rldo,e ouy gtihr rewe dan nacheeitr. Teh yuor ysda sbet ahd detnsfberi meoh in for dna do'lcutn ym,a teh teh mray dna twhi uoy wollnfoig og yuo ohsa btu s,metys ptoprus ruafnel dedi - tenps. Ot a os gglirgstnu prsoutp i'm eeiasr vngiah uhotgh tmsyes tghrvyniee sltil eltrurcny neve cpsoers i,t hcum esmka. To tesb you osal to csk,ued iths vahe asw het hucm - ti rdoafrw yera os loko utb. Ryou ,rfa so 18 eyar eb of oto the ielf illw most asw nda hpeo 71 fgdneini i. Ni ,ealbl litsl yhet ni llt,si griknwo ,alirden eth coron srteadudnn lilw in ee'rw - itxnetg wraehdra hetm adlsn'lo illts - ew cogllee el!lw unldib r,neitan era eorts ta rae nfrside sit eevn and ei'nasnrg liebrtre lodnla nda ta and lraley t,ara eringna iscum niggo tygiunsd otghuh. Hawt not laeryl at rtulsse i thye ym do od tno aahh wer,e emreemrb erct retmta nuiroj lla. Xbngio, spdkepi dya the cohlso ti'ddn od xnte we nad i rcoelcr,yt fi bmererme het rigt?h.
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Rhbatdyi tiem i eht ti angvih n'tsi ecdurs, at a ouye'r enom,tm si ghour coevndicn nda yruo 'ryueo btu kwno. U'loyl nfdi ,pahpy and dnuaor y'ruoe yruo roe'yu ot veol erlan be you rulsoefy and opp,eel yevenoer ot niggo ggoni srleufoy and to. Tpisdu reviosn of ubt isrew ptiaheps yuo umdb ,ouy siwh i of atbsryihd a slilt and mrfo gnyuo the. I eismopr it esgt ,brteet oyu.
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Uoy drpuo im' fo. Lla thta 'youer tmsrtea ngdio dan tbse httas oury. Paphy sha hbydrtia 61 lod arye.
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