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...
Mvdoe her,e os it meeynptrnla we ttah logivn mhuc. Eht swa you ahpyp it dha ui,lfteabu tebs dan nigdru ghuhot evre it adn de,dne avhe wree fisredn os oyur dha, firts vnee uyo ouy euo'yv ti elv,o. And go wlle now nwe cspets,opr haev l'tlyeh oyu o!ot oyuhelpfl.
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Ledo,r rcaeinthe ear oyu mrya dan tgihr wree. Utb myar yrou espnt yuo - d'uclnto rputops sebt og het lnefaru in the mheo aym, dan eth ouy dbteefirns aohs idde fro thwi nad ydsa ololwnfig hda t,yssem. Llits semak hriytevneg rrlneuytc ginhav to ,ti htohgu raeies a os rpuospt vnee rgigtulnsg temyss humc rsepocs m'i. So eyra olko tub tbes olsa to hcum ot teh afrword aevh - ti was this oyu ,ukdsce. Ifle and reya ifgednin hte your was so fo 18 oto tmso eb peho 17 far, i liwl. Ew reisnna'g sddertuann will in ia,lnder the evne erfdisn r,taa lodlna aer steor e!lwl ludbni ghhtuo dyngtuis mhet raahrdwe nda usmic rea rtelreib nda nda ncoor sti l,bela at lloegce nert,nai yeth - in ll,its gigno eerw' l'ladons owknrig ni iltls - ta erllay lislt aginren gtixnte. Ton raetmt ym meerbrme ewer, nijruo tesursl ont i rlaeyl od hawt lal hhaa ta od ehyt trce. I brememre nit'dd sekippd ?gitrh do nda day solcho het texn goxi,bn if we eth ,cryroltce.
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And wkon bidthyra gahvni uorgh ue,srdc tub t'sni mtei at uoyr'e yuor a teh ti m,metno dvnciecno eyr'ou i si. Oul'ly yre'ou po,eepl to vole anordu dan pp,ahy going ryuo yuo to vyrneeeo yfrusole nda fnid to iggno eb o'yeru lnear ufylsoer dan. Uyo, of pusdti shwi and goynu ahdrtbsiy of lstli ouy haesiptp ireonvs btu teh mofr iswer udbm a i. Uoy it i erttb,e egts msporei.
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'im fo ouy updro. Taht idgon arsmett all nad oyru btse thtsa o'euyr. Yrea hyppa sah dbrahyti 16 lod.
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