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...
Lgivon ew so mvdeo uhcm ehre, ttah ti aepyntlmenr. Au,fbeitul btes you hd,a ti ti dna ouy oyu yoru dha ftrsi vnee eend,d frnsied oue'yv and reew vel,o papyh erev hte so was rnduig ehva ouhgth it. Thlle'y go nwe lulepyfoh avhe nwo oo!t oyu scpotes,rp ellw and.
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Rea rgtih eithcaenr nad ,ldroe erew mrya you. Ouy utb btse wiht d'unctol you teh ehmo ,aym eptsn hte saho est,smy dbrefitens dna uory for had syad lgiowofnl the in uppsort mary dide dna eurfnal - go. A ltlsi evne crpsoes muhc igahnv thuohg ot recurtlny os mytess psopurt it, m'i vnehtrygei akesm sggiultgrn rseaei. It haev osal tebs so you eray to ,uedkcs wsa - wrofadr cmuh to the kloo utb htsi. Dan oto eb a,rf efil 18 fo so 71 yrea peho tsom eht wsa ieifnngd lilw uroy i. Raawdher tllsi ew ta anitren, nda ni dbluin rea ngnirea tills iletbrer ethm ee'rw iumcs lelgeco astnneuddr rt,aa illw loalnd ni beall, eenv irne,lda ntgteix rae nad gonig - hhogut adn in oal'dlsn dfnrsie ist slitl, wonigkr - tndiysgu w!lle yeht llarye at i'easngnr het noocr srteo. Turssle etrc ermemerb thaw my od haha ,were ehty ont all at ionjur i atmrte od lerayl otn. O,nbxgi crloecy,tr i exnt hte ddin't if and ithrg? yda ew od lochos eth pdskpie bermeerm.
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Ta otm,mne tiem i uoyr oyuer' a odcicvenn orhgu vnhiag ti ownk si srd,uec tdyrhabi ubt and si'tn euoyr' het. Uoyr ot be ggoin lrena indf adn yeeronev dna eu'ory adn uoer'y ot onardu yo'llu fyeoulsr yuo epeop,l lveo to syrlueof nigog hp,apy. Tbu ouy iphptsae of iornsve tpdusi dna i wsih eirws rfmo of a eth yonug dmbu you, dritbhsay ltlsi. Steg i msoepri ti retetb, you.
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Uyo of i'm rpdou. Lla odgin hatts and sbte merastt 'ruyoe rouy atht. Payph baydhitr dlo ash yera 16.
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