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...
Cumh ,eehr nolgiv thta yplnmnterea omved we os it. Deend, v,oel istrf and so hda othuhg it yveuo' uoy asw niugdr ti ,had nvee ti and eerv hpyap oyu yoru estb ouy hte eerw avhe ifrdesn ib,uuatfel. Dan og !too nwe nwo evha llyhet' hlplyufeo oyu toe,pcspsr llew.
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Eerw hrgti aymr nad are you r,dleo netearhci. Osha hte orf spten go s,yestm tbse adsy ihtw - ouy yarm ulfraen mhoe uyo rnetfebdsi adn tub dah yruo dan l'tcundo ortupps eth hte ,mya died in wlfnloiog. Mi' even tohhug ynucetlrr ulgnigrstg ainvgh a cesspor so slilt eeivhnrtyg stmsey to i,t soutprp hcum riaese keasm. So het tbu - aws to ti okol vhea aosl to htsi dscek,u mhcu odfwrra ryae uyo esbt. Dan rfa, the of be iefl negidinf wlil tsom swa 17 yuro too 18 peoh aery i os. Allodn ge'irsann in gorknwi the even htme sti ni itsll nareing lcegleo nilred,a lbla,e isumc llwi ilebtrre rat,a serot yteh oingg rlelya nad ann,erit neigttx ta nrudeadtsn - nll'dsoa aer and - syitgndu le!wl era ndliub uohhtg aehrawrd eerw' ronoc siltl we in einsdfr ta nda isl,tl. Not trec not rematt all ta tyhe remerebm ahah ,were od my i what lsruets od ryaell ournji. Dikpesp errebmem dna i if eth ntdi'd ew nxbgoi, ayd rcecrtyo,l irthg? eht ntxe od hocslo.
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Orhug uyo're ybirtdah rce,usd i ta ubt wokn nvioncedc yreuo' hte tiem is it mtm,eno sit'n dan uroy nigahv a. Yrou nda to phap,y fnid uonrad ignog ep,lope ernvyoee adn eoryu' vloe fuoerlys dan ot 'yruoe nogig you to eb rofluyse narel uloy'l. ,ouy a suidpt dna ewisr het tslli btu i shwi ahditbrys uyo of rnoievs yuogn fo rofm dmub peatphsi. Ouy bt,tree etgs ti misproe i.
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'im you fo ruodp. All reu'oy thta and astth ruoy iodgn tebs rsttame. Hsa old iradhybt reay 16 payph.
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