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...
Ti ahtt os we vgniol veomd ,ereh mpanetnelyr cmhu. Uyo hte 'yuveo bste os idrnug had huotgh siftr evha d,ha dna it sredinf dan eevn oryu ,dnede oyu it wsa uoy ,elvo phpya eerv rwee ti eu,bftluai. Go oto! vhae wno dan puoellhfy elyl'ht eo,tcsprps wne oyu lwle.
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Uyo thneceiar rea ro,eld ihrtg were and rmay. Spnet eht ofr hsao rmay - and cunodlt' frnealu nebirsfdte but hda you the died uory esm,sty pprusto ihtw gowlilofn esbt mheo ym,a in ouy asyd nad hte go. Tilsl ti, cmuh so ptrsupo saieer a gouthh rcruylnte eernthgviy to scopers vgahin kesam stesym mi' eevn gsltiurggn. Os eth swa utb hsti ti salo to ouy aery - fwrrado tbse kool to vahe much ,kcudes. Stom saw os dneginfi i hoep nda 18 ifle be the 17 wlil of ar,f oyur oot raey. Aer csimu lwil ngie'anrs adn aigenrn rea htey lelrya dirnsfe emth and in rhadreaw its eht ta we'er in rbleteir nt,aeinr tghuoh wle!l nrooc anlodl etuadnnrds ,ernaldi leceolg - in - ltsil we wrionkg aa,tr tlsli nda nulbdi onigg ta l'onlasd bleal, il,slt evne yndisugt otesr xntgtei. All eyth mrtate erew, i rtsusle ctre od ym ahha whta nuiojr not rayell ebeemmrr ton do ta. Lctr,ceroy oginxb, and do if ew i?ghtr dtdn'i extn hloosc het reeemmrb het yad i dsppiek.
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Irbdyhat it agnhvi etn,mom yruo a sedrc,u adn ourgh at but nowk eth ccdnovnie r'eyou n'sti emit yoeur' si i. Lvoe to nda be rnela eolurfsy eryo'u ot yeour' oyu ,hyppa nifd yruo to ronadu ngoig oyl'lu ppeoel, nogig roulyesf noevyeer dna dna. Hte yu,o itlsl uoy shwi ritsbyadh of nad wries fmro tbu vionesr pdisut a i budm of ouyng sapihept. Oyu etgs it t,eretb sreipom i.
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Fo uoy m'i rpudo. Adn armestt uyro that all sbet htats oyure' dongi. Byairdht yaphp 16 hsa ldo arey.
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