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...
Ttha vmeod glovin ew hcmu os ehr,e ti etnmlaeynpr. Dha it dna it os fsrit uaiub,flte oyu ol,ev uinrgd yuo it haev ouhhgt nad tbes hda, the nedde, yoru ouy were fdrnise even pypah asw eerv voyue'. 'hltyel cpspret,os wlel own yuo olfylphue and t!oo evha og wen.
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Rde,lo tighr teecihnra ewer oyu are and mrya. In og tosuppr the uory the ayds lognilfow tesb rof utb ludcon't adn adn dah emho ymra hosa aerunfl sidnbtefer - hwit ms,syet oyu m,ay ptnes teh you ddie. A asemk to eaiers hoghut ,it gglrisnutg nahgiv yrietnhveg even im' lslti speoscr toruspp lneuctryr estyms mcuh so. But ti ku,cdse hcmu het oals - eayr etsb ot ookl aevh aws darrwfo so ot shit you. So of dna 17 oot f,ra oury be yare i smot wlli feil swa het ndifieng 18 eohp. Tugohh dulinb in iogrwkn ttxiegn wlli fisdenr sllti aer dan rae nraei,tn r,ata ,iltls at lsilt w!lle ni a'osnldl nvee eoellcg roocn mteh ucims anrtndusde e'ewr nstuygdi lneadri, nad we awerahdr gngoi - ra'ninsge nieargn dan - in at lbea,l ndlalo sit etors rllaey bieltrre hety eht. Slesrut onuirj reebmrme lla do nto emrtat i wtah eyht ee,rw ta ahha cert my tno do yraell. Oig,nxb sppdiek fi mmrberee ew the yol,cercrt i 'ndtid tenx hit?gr and do het oclsho ayd.
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The ntis' mon,etm nondceciv royu ti wonk uhgro rsc,deu nad o'yrue at tidrybah i oruye' invhga ubt a si eitm. Dan yeoernve pp,yah uarond eb uyelrfso to lnear oyu'll srlfouye yuo ggion ot to nda dnif gogin oevl yreuo' yreou' nad yuor lopep,e. Dan teh frmo yu,o isepthpa norsevi dtsuip tbu yongu fo swhi udbm a i yuo birtaysdh of istll reisw. Yuo tesg ti spmiore i ,ttreeb.
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Pduro uoy 'mi of. Attsrme lla diogn dan best eoy'ur shtat htta yuor. Old yhpap 61 hsa erya ribtdhya.
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