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...
So ntrpnmleyae it chmu ehe,r vdome vilngo ew thta. Dna eth reve indgru ahd ti e,vol fstri asw it it you 'veyou ewer t,iuueflba ouy yhppa eevn edned, tuohgh tseb yuor adn you dah, fseirdn ahev so. Veah ewll ofhlueylp yuo pcetss,opr enw yeh'tll o!ot og won and.
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Ryam r,dole dan rhigt yuo wree heaietcrn aer. Yarm oupsrpt dna wtih tbes sday - og ni dha mya, gwofnoill het uyo ohsa royu pnets teh fro iedd ct'dunlo het s,ytmse utb ouy heom dna dnsrteifbe ufenrla. Rlceutnry muhc utprsop os vnee grvytihnee hganvi grugstlign to sakme thhguo a semyts tlsil isaree ti, m'i crpoess. Het dwrrfoa oolk uoy evah ot btu htis os setb to - eyar asw soal hcmu kdecs,u ti. F,ar arey tmos oryu so fo 18 i too asw 71 eindingf efil dan be pohe iwll eht. Dna ni ladonl lwli in and we ierrblte slitl at are resifdn tyhe rea ,etianrn !lelw - ggnoi aold'snl dan nokirwg teors llba,e waaerhrd tdenrdsuan iltsl tisgudny iscum veen tis - rew'e ronoc yraell dbnliu the leeolcg at lils,t gthuoh dainerl, arta, irnenag hetm in xgtitne nsnegrai'. Nto ta rcte ratemt do ton i whta ebmmrree ym lal ahah iournj etrsslu eewr, alrlye eyht od. Rbmeerme sdkpeip colsho do nda teh ew grtih? td'dni ,ibgxon fi dya txen i eth ler,ctcyor.
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Btu ro'uye ury'eo adbyrthi a etmi nda rs,ecud i ns'ti teh ta is oryu guohr m,tonme ngiavh nkow vinnodcec it. Lrean igngo eroeveny ot ot 'yreuo fnid evol nad ot adn a,phyp oluyfres ioggn yoru nad leuyrsof you be ull'oy oduarn o,pelep 'yroue. I hiws uoy itlls mbud the fo uspdit a of ovnesri psphtiae ougyn tbu and yuo, tsdihraby wries omfr. It bee,rtt i oyu meiposr gste.
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Udpro i'm fo uoy. Ryuo 'eruoy smtreta ahtt lla atsth etbs nda noidg. Reya has aphpy dol 61 ratbiyhd.
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