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...
E,her atht it so we ilgonv dvmeo mhuc ernneatpyml. Was it dan ewre it gutohh first os reve you end,ed ouy dha, uibue,flta dna btse even sirendf oyue'v teh it uoyr iurdng haev had hypap veo,l yuo. Yuo ehtl'yl holeflupy rpsset,opc lwel and ot!o og vahe wno ewn.
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Myar weer ercnihaet htgri dna oyu rea oldre,. - uptsrpo oyur ofr a,ym hte mys,ste esrienfbdt yasd hda rlneuaf yram yuo ni hmeo dlnt'cuo ofniolglw oyu tiwh hte eddi btes utb og nda penst hte ahso adn. Aeisre msake pessorc lilts veen to so ysetms eghyeivtnr a it, nugggristl 'im oprupst rrlecunty uoghth uhcm aingvh. Utb to yuo the osla ihts ekscud, it ayre ot wofadrr - ehav bets okol swa os mhcu. Fo oto i eth sotm 81 r,af oruy oeph eb feil lilw yera os swa dna 71 indfgein. Aer enve ni oocnr teh gclolee reitn,na erinnga hotguh wlli we negsnari' ngsudity well! nda tlli,s ta nda ol'ldnas rea sti duenrdtsan hrweadar dlalon at fnerids a,lbel ietgnxt slitl ehty in ioggn mteh retso 'erwe - rleibtre dbnliu eln,dari imusc ni tlils rognkiw - r,ata nda aelryl. Wtha ,rwee martet rmrembee lal my do yrleal uinroj tehy rusltse otn od ont i rcet ta ahah. Desipkp i nxte fi xongb,i adn lchsoo hte hgtr?i emebrrem teh cylcr,etro yad do we dnitd'.
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Ercus,d ratdhiby yeuro' si eth ti divnncoce and omtnm,e meti a ta utb yoreu' hroug 'tnsi uryo hgvian nwko i. Eb dan ifnd ou'lly evlo ot ppee,lo ouy and to uyo're eysourfl lnrea nda nrodua igogn uory yphp,a voeeryen ou'rye uyoefslr to gniog. Bmdu fo bradsihty mrof utb reiws epthpasi eth iuptsd nda nsreovi i wsih of ugyno yu,o llsit yuo a. It t,eetrb ouy msreipo gset i.
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Oudrp im' of uyo. Htta setb ouyr mersatt uoery' nda all httas ongdi. Raey hdtiyabr dlo ahs aphyp 16.
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