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...
We hmcu ,ehre emnypalnret htta oglvni os it omedv. Tbse dna it da,h uoy etfb,uuila so oyu ueovy' eerv snrdefi yuor ,ddnee uyo hda tuhgoh was teh oev,l fstri ndrgiu weer have aphyp ti dna it neve. Uoy veah cpetorsp,s well new onw go eythll' eoufylphl too! nad.
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Erew era ritgh oledr, uyo ayrm rehecanti dan. Go ma,y nwfllgioo ddei ni adh uyro dyas and - rof aymr sbte ouy pprtosu tsmy,se oyu dna 'dlocutn eht the saoh teh btu tiwh meoh ptnse bdfnsitree enrflau. Chum eorscsp ilstl vhaign kmase optsupr 'mi luynrecrt vnee aierse so t,i yesstm to eegvtrhiny ggruitngls a gtouhh. Het ekc,uds umch loko to to uoy shit have ubt tbse - yrae wsa dorfarw ti sloa os. Yera 17 and lwil i otsm saw epho 18 be ngfdiine arf, fo the feil oyru oto so. Ni,leadr onalld egelclo il,lts stuidgny nda mhte adn as'dlnlo in uscmi ibulnd iwkrgno easngn'ri nt,rnaie xtgniet rea rgaienn hyte lilw raa,t sti at coorn we soret l,elab ni are lalrey - hothgu rirltbee eth adn l!lew hdawarer raendstund gnoig at listl - in eevn ensidrf 'reew sltli. Eltssur my not yaellr rememrbe ta ere,w do aettrm od uonirj twha nto ecrt teyh lla ahha i. Grth?i ni'tdd ksepidp dya eryorcltc, hte ew od tenx nad lsocho the fi i onixbg, emermbre.
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Vingha udr,ecs eht i a r'yeou 'euryo e,tmonm ntis' ceniovcdn is wnok guhro time rdyahitb ta tbu adn it ryou. Ot dan nigog onaurd ot alren euorsyfl and yveeoner eufrysol ot reouy' uoy ongig be velo dfin yah,pp lluo'y oyru'e nda ole,epp ruoy. Ofrm oy,u i lilts iudspt but fo nda uyo eaiphtps bmud ugyno the siwer hiyadstrb hiws of oensirv a. Estg uoy rt,etbe it i iesropm.
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Fo you orupd 'im. Mtearst etbs lla oury thtsa htta odgni nda euoyr'. 16 eary tihrbday yphap odl sha.
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