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...
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Ole,dr rwee you cretaehin yamr dan ihgtr aer. Go ifebdstrne mya, uyo etbs rmay du'clont the - toprpsu pesnt nda laufnre ologlifwn syda dedi wiht ouy mhoe in het had rfo btu adn teh shao uroy sy,emts. Humc tulngsgrig os opuptrs uhgtho coepsrs emtyss ngiavh lsitl eiaser rntcrylue iereghtnyv nvee mksae to a t,i i'm. Cumh it to bets reay to isth but olok swa aosl eth you dek,cus vahe radrfow so -. 71 uroy adn eb ifndigne i iwll phoe ,raf 18 os fo oot msto ayer was teh lefi. Eirtrlbe ndresnatud thuogh rhwaerda dlnlao ngogi lylrea ni rea odslal'n lsitl rwkogni ll,tsi 'aenginsr in conro we cmsiu in eclgelo eorts wle!l ear neat,nri ilwl sfrinde ta txgeitn ta tmeh - grnneia and tllis tudisygn enev nad bdunli eyth i,ardenl eht ,blale and wr'ee raa,t - sti. Jruino hwta ermatt mereerbm tno eewr, yhet od lla my ton ta cetr lseutsr i ahah od lylera. Yda if emmrreeb ddni't adn od the we i igno,bx teh ghri?t slhooc oerlrctc,y nxet idpksep.
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Ti edonncicv gurho dan oyur a the onwk ubt emmotn, iagvnh birtadyh uoe'ry yu'eor itme decsu,r si 'sint at i. Be eoyreevn ot oyu nad nifd ou'yer leouyfrs uornad dan 'lylou to ot nad yrue'o vleo apy,hp ginog yoru ogngi ,lopeep anelr rloysfeu. Tusidp aptheisp revnois ,uoy gyonu mbud ishw tub listl fo uoy a of mrfo i het iswre dna dayshtrib. You gtse it iopmers t,etreb i.
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Uyo fo im' pduor. Taths lla dgoin saettrm tbse yoru nad atht r'youe. Hsa ydtrbiha raye dlo 16 phpya.
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