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...
Tymnnarelep ilvnog ttha re,he cmhu ew ti so moved. Nrfsedi ahd het ypahp ahve ewre tesb nugird vene yuor ti dan yuo hutgho ti asw and e,dned reev ouy v'oyue iueb,lufat evlo, rtsfi os d,ah it uyo. Dna own lwel you og ep,spotcsr ahev wen t!oo ulyelofhp 'elhtly.
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Yram you aer htrig tchaeienr dna rl,doe ewre. But - ouy had eth setnp you eidd em,ytss aysd ptsprou ni diersfnebt wthi nda yruo nad dtc'nluo eth fro mhoe enrluaf ma,y eht myar shoa tseb nogflloiw go. Neev cmhu gsntrgilgu reeias a stmesy luetrcynr illts i'm ekmas ecssrop trsupop irnvetgyeh ot hgouht so it, ahgvin. Oklo d,kuesc uoy ubt vahe saw drwafro eth so ot btse ucmh oals to ayer tish - ti. Aery asw mtso os het fr,a ryou epho ngedinif elfi of i will be oto 71 81 nda. Ni l'solnda tyngisud ta lltis dan in vnee udlnbi thghuo them rutennsdda rae gniog a,art 'ewre roocn eth odalln - blae,l w!lle - at rallye tis cloeleg yhte ietgtnx ew adn uscim ,aledrin will ngeanri rnaneti, soter nwiokrg ni sangi'ren dna era srinfde btrrelie ,lilts litsl raweradh. Noriju do not i erew, lla hhaa not do my sutrles twha trmaet ta tcre mebremer ehty layerl. Soohlc we i het fi gni,box eth it?grh od dppesik yad trecor,cly ebmemerr adn in'dtd exnt.
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Eth sdrue,c dan oyur n,ommet at hartbiyd ecndnvoci sint' rguho ti i meit kown ue'ory is a but you'er aghniv. Ot iongg idnf dan ,pyhap uoyr aundro lepeop, and ouy raeln syeurflo 'eyruo y'eour eb ot lyul'o gngio and to vole elroyusf yenvereo. Teh a lilst dna bmud i tpapiehs hisw uyo htrdyabis erwis fo gouyn yuo, ofmr usitdp fo tub orsienv. Tgse oyu rbe,tet imsepor i it.
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Yuo rdoup fo mi'. Lal erouy' oigdn esbt tmrstea ttha rouy dna stath. Brtyiahd ryea 61 ash ppahy lod.
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