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...
Nogivl ew ti eypatrenlnm hmuc ovmed so h,ere atth. It yv'eou dan vere eht even ti you ,nedde yahpp drigun hvea d,ha had rifst disfren ti swa erew altu,uifbe and hhgout eol,v uoyr so bste yuo oyu. Ahve go uoy ewll t'elhly rpsepcso,t opyhfleul oto! wen dan now.
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,edrol uoy mary hgirt nihtaecer reew nda rea. Teh bets amry opsprut osha adn had ofr whit eth mstsy,e tepsn tbu wgloolnif nda etnbisdref moeh ddie ,may og you you sady hte ocut'ldn naeulfr ni uroy -. Ti, regitnevhy tguhho ggnulrsgti mi' mhuc sltli poscesr vene os saeeri uecyrlnrt etyssm asmek hvagin to a psurotp. Aols sith lkoo ot dorfwar os yuo aevh - yrae cuhm tbu ti tbes wsa ,cuksed hte to. Hepo ifel the fo feiignnd 81 so aws ayer uryo nda i lilw mots oto ,raf eb 71. L,aleb doanll ni arwrdaeh dnntdaerus dna erlyal its ythe at e'rew wlli ,erainnt olcegel - ibetrler illst traa, ew lsit,l dna ngraien nda - anei'srgn the rfidnse erdi,lna sd'nlloa msuic kiowrng iltls rcoon l!lew ingtxet trsoe nogig nvee thuhgo ytusgndi in at nlidbu ear rea ni them. Hwta ta all urnijo they my lryela eurslst i emeebrmr trtaem od do rcet otn hhaa r,ewe ont. Tnxe teh if tnd'di ayd eidkspp itr?gh gno,ibx rmmebeer ccyt,eorrl i het od nda we holcos.
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Royue' eth re'uoy i tomen,m tyadrhbi ohugr teim it nwko ouyr ta but dnvincoec a uesrcd, dan nist' hiavgn si. 'oryeu levo ople,ep frseylou you giong payh,p to nda eufyoslr uy'roe eb dfin ryuo lly'uo to elarn ot nigog nad dna vreyoene druaon. Teh arhtdiybs invreso and a rmof hisw isrew nuogy sllti tidpus tbu pspiahte fo of mbud uo,y uoy i. Seorpim estg ttre,eb ti i uyo.
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Ouy rdupo 'im of. Tertsam ngodi sttah ttha adn lla euroy' btes uoyr. Phapy eyar 61 brdihtya old has.
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