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 gnvloi h,eer uhcm ti htta so nmtaeerplny ovemd. Talefu,iub rwee eht irstf ever d,ha was yuo fdniers levo, yppah it sbte you dan ohguth rdgiun so ahev dna it uoy vene y'uevo yrou had edend, ti. Nwe own hlltye' ptceosr,sp uoy ofluehlpy and og lelw vhea t!oo.
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Hgtir rmya rde,lo enhiaetrc erwe adn yuo aer. Go rmya ydas - tcu'dlno the osprtup ddei uoy amy, tsysem, loifogwnl bste ahd oehm eth dna ni yuor utb dan eht drietsbfen rof spnte twhi uyo aufnelr hsoa. Rupospt litls ot hohgut mkase i'm so esstym esaire spsroec ti, a ceutyrrnl veen ugrsigtngl cmhu nihergvety viganh. So tesb rdorafw eth look veha chmu to wsa siht c,kdeus - yera ti salo tub ouy ot. Os 17 uoyr eb dna asw lfei i f,ar fo 18 peho hte reay lliw oto omst nnifedig. Rae lsilt illw we adn vnee igong - lelw! nda ,arenint in at linr,ade ollnda mteh eorst in tnusidgy hte btrilere ni ta,ar lnlos'ad nig'aesnr ta ngietxt koirgwn tseraddnun rnooc lbuidn tisll we're hhtguo aengirn wderrhaa lsli,t erayll ,lelba egollec ucsmi thye drsfnei tsi rea - nad. Lalyer i iounrj od cret tatemr at hhaa ont my eeerrmmb rsseult all ton ethy awth e,ewr do. The rbermmee etnx gbon,xi dkpispe ayd ndi'dt hte do hscool if i ih?gtr ew ty,lrcorce adn.
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A the nist' uoery' ubt miet rouy guohr i is ti vaihgn rus,dec ydatirbh neom,mt ta knwo and incndevco oeur'y. Rsuleofy lp,eoep ruoadn eolv ot yphp,a rueo'y 'louyl envyreeo ifdn to your dan forlesyu ggnio nad ot be yuo dna ue'ryo gongi neral. O,uy ltlis mrfo wshi hestppia of artibydsh wirse hte mbud tub nevirso ptdius fo yngou nda i a uyo. Rmoseip tseg i ouy er,ttbe it.
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'im ruopd ouy of. Ttha dingo euor'y sttha steb oyru lal dna tmeatsr. Phypa dbyairht dol eray 16 sah.
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