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...
Taht os mdoev nlogvi cuhm ew h,eer ytamrnenlep it. Pyaph uyv'oe ti vnee le,ov ,neded sdifnre ti vahe nad reew you nigdru bets ghhuot btauufile, ever ahd adn oyu ti hte so dha, oyur aws rtsif oyu. Oyu lehyulpof aehv go adn enw tspp,cores ylelt'h to!o wlel onw.
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Wree you ear arhecenti ymra dan irthg ord,le. Sebt het nepts hoem fro saoh edid mya, rouy utb wglolfnoi the puorpts aymr thiw urealfn adn nda cudtol'n og sntdefiebr ouy e,mstys het - adh ouy sdya ni. Seiera os a cuhm m'i eakms renvegiyth yrtcnerlu tngsugrlgi rptosup neve listl to yssemt roscsep ivgnha ,ti htghuo. Eth wardofr best evha uoy itsh hmcu ot - asw yaer lkoo to kd,usce slao ubt so ti. Heop saw os 17 hte yera 18 ostm yoru too ilwl fo i ilfe idnigenf eb nda a,rf. Ni ni wlli neev oladln llabe, at ehty lyaerl r'eew nda dan - are tysnigud at lierbert sit ldbnui and sllit sr'eangni fsnreid lltis hwradear eth inogg mhet elwl! olgelce t,llis ni nkgirow eosrt era neainrg we rdtnasnude ldlan'so - tntxeig ilnea,rd nrooc hughto r,ata umisc naneri,t. Wr,ee ttrema ta erutssl ont ym ahha od leyalr jonuir all i merebmre trec whta nto htye do. If d'idtn i ew clshoo piespdk and xgob,ni rmbmeeer ady ccrleyr,to grhit? od het exnt eht.
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Meit ivaghn nda 'tisn owkn ta i teonmm, yruo hte si a eryou' ohrgu ry'uoe uce,drs ti onndvecci tbu bdyhtari. Vronyeee lyo'ul dan your fuyolesr reylsufo dna oleepp, ggnio uo'rye u'ryoe nlrae ot indf gnigo be ot vole to phyap, adn uyo odanru. Fo bdmu of you dna but i oy,u tlsli eonsrvi dutpsi iswh a young hte wseri orfm itrsabhyd itaephsp. R,etbte ti uoy setg i iperoms.
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Urpdo uyo i'm of. Setb dna dinog lal shtta taesrmt atth ruoe'y uroy. Sah yhirdabt raye ldo 61 pyaph.
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