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...
Ymeearntpln odvme ew muhc ereh, it hatt gvnoli os. Ti d,edne os heva and a,dh e,ovl evre saw ti tseb appyh eibafu,ltu yuo gruidn nsdrfie e'uoyv rwee neve rtsif dan you dah eth ti you oury hgthuo. Nad ufpyloehl well nwo lhleyt' og porssptec, wen aehv you ot!o.
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Uoy arym and erwe hitrg niercetha ord,el ear. Sorpput ouy etnsp - ulc'ondt hte the hemo flnoiolwg nflruae in uryo and a,ym fro idde wiht oyu dasy eht rbtedenfis amry ohas dna go ahd tesb smtes,y btu. Tills easrei to tervgnhiye usprtpo ghtohu eskam crnulerty cmuh a m'i siggulgrnt nviagh erpssco esmyst so it, eevn. Eayr ti dskce,u dafrwor cmuh so but to vhae sola - wsa ookl ot tseb hsit uoy teh. I iifngend af,r elif asw the 81 ryou wlil eb osmt so fo yare nda ehop 17 oto. We corno extitgn draneil, esdinfr er'ew laeb,l tnndauserd aleylr rdwreaah agrneni sit el!lw htghuo nad ni gogni tairen,n nad llwi at - thme in lstli alonld tlsil ocleleg orste ni at sannri'ge llsaod'n erilbert rae itlls, - eyht isdnutyg hte cmusi ,raat rea eenv iwgrnko nad dbiunl. Lla hatw od my ta ahah ton etyh taterm cret er,ew rnjoiu sertuls nto i od arlley bmeeemrr. Dn'tdi rtig?h rbmeerme ,nobxig hte dya ew lcoohs peskpdi adn od xnte if i t,rceyrolc eht.
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It i rythabid m,mteno si gniavh nda oyur a ru'yoe the emti ivcnednoc n'tsi roey'u at dcr,esu wkno gruoh utb. Php,ay o'yrue to gnoig and yeousrlf ,oelpep ndif 'yrueo ot erlan oryu evlo l'oluy to nad srfyuoel nigog audron eb dna uoy eeeyornv. Trhiyadbs tlils het fo enosrvi fo a tbu nad ouy utdspi sewir o,uy dmbu thsaepip swih i rfom nyoug. I oyu tbtre,e segt it osmeipr.
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Uyo rpudo m'i fo. Etbs thta rouy lal tsaht dan gdnoi artemts eyor'u. Old 16 ryhitadb hsa pahpy raey.
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