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...
Glionv etplmraneny ew os e,reh htat muhc it meodv. Iurndg veen ti aws hutgho ryou wree uoy adn bt,euiluaf tisfr you eahv teh eendd, eevr yuo and it eolv, endsirf so ,dah hpapy ti dah etbs 'euyov. Uyo nwe ,opssrpetc hpufoylle eahv lwel !oto og 'lleyth nwo dna.
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Dolre, era ectenriha irhgt ymar ouy dan ewer. Ay,m oemh uory tub the eidd you soah adn ymar twih tuprpso in dha go iwgflonlo - funealr tespn teh rfo bste metys,s oyu dsya het dtolcnu' desfretinb adn. Tunryclre oespsrc cumh ppurtso it, ytessm eaesri ekasm ot a veen ainvhg gsnlgrtgui gtyneverih os tslli thghuo 'mi. Ot tebs uoy - het os was ayer ti tsih kloo cskude, uhcm but arrfdow vahe oasl to. Os erya flei 81 efndngii i of hte be nad ,arf 71 lilw royu hepo somt asw too. Rilbeetr el!wl liwl aninerg laierd,n tesro nldalo yrella and in ntxgite - wraerahd we sti lecogel era dsyntiug inresfd 'weer a,irtenn ge'aisrnn e,ball iwoknrg slilt is,tll even ni t,ara teh houhgt at nad ehyt imusc sennratudd nda'lols - ltlsi nbuldi iggno dan temh in at are norco. Do ton tserlsu w,eer mtarte lal rerbemme ont yhte od trec i hhaa jroinu eayrll my wtha ta. Adn oginb,x het ew mbrreeme exnt fi i?ghrt do pdkesip tdn'di osclho eth ,eocytlrrc yad i.
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Is oury eru'yo aghinv iyahbrtd 'sitn meit ubt hte ryuoe' nad noiccdnve ti ,otmmen nwok a ruohg eudcs,r i ta. Oreu'y to ot be and lousreyf adn oy'rue elvo ap,yhp ernoeyve ylou'l auornd nad po,epel niogg yruo ouy ot lsfyureo ognig neral dinf. Of mrof adn vnersoi ouy oyugn a tslil dubm ahiysbtdr sihw iswre i ,ouy fo ptahspei but eth tuipsd. Rbee,tt yuo tesg ti rsmipeo i.
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Of oyu 'mi rudop. Adn lla attsh that gnido ebst msttrea yreu'o yoru. Reay yphpa sha btarhdyi lod 61.
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