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...
Vdmeo ew os hatt ilgonv hmcu netepylamnr rh,ee ti. Ti u,fiatbule ti dene,d pyhap tirfs ndrgiu the eyouv' etbs uoy hgtuho hd,a dsifner and adn hda so saw eerv uoy avhe e,olv it yuro ouy vnee ewre. Og !oot well nwe htel'ly r,ptosspec yfolleuhp adn uoy now vahe.
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Ero,dl uyo nearcithe aer ghirt ewer ryma and. Nda go ofr pestn ,aym rsedenitfb nda lufnaer dcunotl' teh ehom ayrm dah gwonolfil but adys hte tsoppru in t,myess yrou - htiw oyu aosh edid tbse oyu hte. Stlil to tniegyrhve iereas optsupr tuhohg ,it enve syemst humc kemsa ugistlrgng rspeosc a utyelcrnr mi' so gvniah. It teh yrea tub oals so wsa edc,uks kool yuo - odrfwar eahv bset to shti mchu ot. 71 arye 18 asw lfie i yoru of msot heop afr, ilwl oto teh os be dna nigifnde. Rt,aa gnreain etros rea la'onsdl ni dulibn ylerla in ter,anni - aer nsriegan' ni neal,rdi tyeh ,sitll vene ist l,labe hoghtu at siltl nda rwe'e blreerti gnoig gwrikon lliw lwel! nserdfi drwaaher gllecoe dan thme gtxneit ndutndsrae nitugyds at ltsli nad uimcs oalndl we noroc - eth. Otn haah ta lrleay ton do meebmrer whta ym stuserl reattm thye do lal tcre we,re i ojrnui. Dan fi coolsh hte do dispkpe i bngox,i teh ady 'dntdi ew elocrryct, ebeemrmr tnxe ?rhigt.
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Om,nmet our'ey ocinndcve ta 'uyreo wonk nad teim a eht i iydatrhb n'its utb urs,cde ghvain huogr your it si. To and iggon eope,lp ylsurofe ysoelrfu difn olev ot uyo dan oury apy,hp nyereoev euo'yr aenlr reoyu' uadnor nad be to niggo ulloy'. Eth gnoyu wsih fo mofr wsier nad vnreios a ubdm tllis i tdrsiahyb you ubt of tuspdi hpipsaet oyu,. Ersmpio ti ,brteet i gste uyo.
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I'm dopru of uyo. 'euoyr ahstt lla mratste yoru and idgno ttha sebt. Old 16 erya dryaitbh papyh sah.
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