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...
Os we yrnntelpaem hcum mvedo htat eer,h it vgioln. Ti vnee eht ti evha wsa dha it yve'uo ypahp rgnidu thguho eewr reev uyo oyu so tsbe uyro lve,o siftr erfsndi nde,de nad adn blua,iufte dha, ouy. Te,sosprcp and lwle uyo el'thly wne !oot vhea won og poyllhufe.
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Ihrtg rea netiecrah rmay rwee dan ouy ,odlre. And efndiresbt amyr hte tbu het asdy stbe go deid uryo rfo e,stysm hemo uyo estnp ithw lfigolwon - haos and efunalr trpsuop ucdo'tnl ,mya uyo ni dha hte. Ysstem inhagv so egthevnyri rcsspoe eamks lislt ot saieer a evne lgistrugng potspru hmcu im' uohtgh rulyrtnce i,t. Eth ryae eskcud, ookl so ot hcum oasl it heav tseb utb isth uoy - aws frwrdao to. Liwl 17 nda fo wsa eb most arf, oto uyro 18 hte ophe ayer life eginnfdi i so. - sltli nda ew grnwiko eer'w ertso ogign tilsl !llew nda usmic in ta irnnega tehy tsi dna xtnteig dsnefri ublidn ,taar lisl,t in enev ta tmhe 'serginna iwll era htohug tysdgnui - dlaonl erlrebit ndudnetrsa ylaler n,ianetr l,able lnria,ed dsl'lnoa onrco ear eth eolcelg in reawdrha. Ecrt hatw ayellr otn ,rewe do ta otn i do traetm tursles my lal htey runijo rbmereem aahh. Yecrroclt, od i fi nad ady eth entx n,goxib ew dipkspe eeremrmb dd'tni the hirgt? oslhco.
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Ritdhayb the at st'ni uryo tiem ti ntmo,me a is i tbu nad y'oeru rcsud,e vagihn nconveicd 'oeryu gruoh okwn. Uyor dan lly'ou aunrod eb ot ot voel ngogi gigno revneyeo uoery' yha,pp uyo nda leanr ur'eoy oeylrusf idfn pep,ole ot and lsfeuroy. Srybdahit ubt saphptie a hte iwhs ogynu rmfo tpusdi i of adn sillt mdub vieonrs ,yuo fo iwesr uoy. ,terteb yuo i ti tegs ismrope.
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Pudor m'i of you. Lal ttahs tbes atht gdion yoru adn mesrtat ouy'er. 16 has ppahy yrea dibahyrt odl.
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