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...
Umch os re,eh ew nmeentyarlp it thta nivglo eodmv. Dha oyu've adn veah gnrudi etbs os oyu reew vnee hd,a oyu it pyhpa tsrfi uube,iaftl saw nda uoy vree ,elvo ti srnifed it eht ouyr ohthug edned,. Nwo uoy o!to tre,ppcsso dan ewn elwl ylhpuloef eyllh't og avhe.
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Dan irght ouy weer acretnhie ,loerd ear army. Btu og idde spuortp - hte orf yrma ntcduol' ya,m ,tsmesy eht in lowiofnlg uyo mohe yruo shoa tiwh adh sentp ebst and dyas bineefstrd ufnrael dna uoy hte. Eriyhentgv vgnahi so lilts sportpu uhcm sspcore gthohu a t,i earies ysstem ucyrrteln nvee 'mi ot kamse girgtngusl. Rforawd to bset yare eht stih asol it look uyo to - chum swa vahe os ecs,udk ubt. Eary wsa wlil 71 eifl i eohp uoyr so nad the stmo too gdfnenii fra, fo eb 18. Ndsefri knrogiw dnblui gtinext htme ginog a,rat we eerw' mcisu l,elab iudygnst ldaei,nr ueansnrdtd in le!wl even in rae era enta,rni ta dan leritebr laondl dslaon'l elogelc and orets wrahared laelyr hte lsitl eyth nad - i,sllt ta - hotghu gr'nesina ni ganreni noorc sit ltlis lilw. Llryea yteh sestlur otn lal etrc irjoun ym tamert od aahh awth od i errbeemm ,ewer not ta. Nad the txen if ,lrrcytoec ebrmreem nix,obg teh t?grhi od clsoho we idtd'n i yad spkidep.
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Gahinv i mmetn,o gruho eht ruoy'e ryuo imte ti dcvcninoe a konw 'ntis 'yoeru yhraibtd is dan u,cdres at but. Nad eorneevy fndi ot and uorye' rnlae oury ioggn ot eusorfly olev ryueo' ouy ufsyrloe nodrau oele,pp uo'lyl dan hpyp,a be oiggn to. And hseapitp bmud i fo yuo utb a teh hsiw itlsl fomr iesvonr of ustpid ouy, tdhairbys ngyou wsire. Tesg yuo ttbe,er ti i mpsrioe.
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Fo m'i ourdp ouy. Yruo royu'e hatst lal nad ebts gdnoi htat saetrmt. 16 sha eayr ahppy dol yatirbdh.
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