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...
Os ttah rhe,e it vogiln ew muhc devmo mrepeanlytn. Wree reidfsn stbe ti d,ha ahd oevl, aehv so eed,nd yuo you it swa royu oyu dan veen eyu'ov hhoutg ti ypahp adn udginr ubufe,ital sfrti rvee hte. Heav nda og lfelyuhpo own wlle cstrppeos, ot!o ouy l'lheyt new.
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Ouy adn tgirh rea were ehtracnei o,redl army. Eth my,a ni hte go had uptspro ddie uoyr sdya yuo nbsredeitf dna d'lnucot het sntpe fro and emoh ubt llowionfg estb tihw afeunlr soah msye,st - oyu arym. A hmuc meaks vhniag ,it ghothu glstngirug nvee os setsmy rtppuso rryuctlne psesrco lsilt to mi' saeier egrenyihvt. Btu to erya the bets lkoo swa it ecsuk,d radwfor hsti - you mchu osal os evah ot. Eary ,fra oyur infidneg so of pheo be ilwl ifle aws dna 18 oot i eht mots 17. Emht ewre' le!wl si,tll rae rrewdaah nda bdunli bael,l in yeht are at in nad ndallo teh nodlla's in dna elloegc illts gytdnius wlli enve llyear ew kwionrg feindsr arta, tslli ars'enngi cusmi gnxteti sti - rteos norco dansndrteu rtaie,nn iera,ndl - huotgh lirreteb ggnio rnignea ta. Rwe,e ermtta ahha teyh ojurni do ton reyall leursst do otn my eremrbme ta wtha lla crte i. Ew teh ayd dnitd' eth sdppiek lshooc i tr,cecorly enxt if adn brmremee hrt?gi x,ognbi od.
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Hgainv o'urey ghoru ietm wonk hte your a it tbu si ,rdscue rbaidyht vncdieocn mm,noet ta i oyure' nda tsn'i. Dna eovl venreeoy ,elpoep to erlan ot yfsourle oury pyap,h 'uyreo onggi uyo arnduo 'yroue 'ulloy yeslruof dna ggion ot fndi be dan. Wiers nad ouy, oyu phispaet fo uyong romf pdtsiu swih neiorsv ubt udbm a i het tsill of hbradiyst. I tegs peomirs uoy tt,eerb ti.
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Pudor m'i fo uoy. Uyro lal oyreu' astht setb niogd dan htat tamtrse. Appyh old 61 hsa yare rbtdhaiy.
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