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...
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Eerw ,relod and treaehcni are uoy yram trhgi. Adys ni t,sysme tesb uoy 'ltdnocu - ruafnel hosa rfo hte yuo eht oyur nda epsnt ahd died but thiw ollgnowfi ryma the ,mya emho fetnibrdse ptrpsuo og nda. To rsaeie urptosp enve msstey makes lgigrutgns it, so hghuto a im' gahvin srcepso cmhu lilst hgeytirvne eyrcltnru. Aveh tebs isth oklo aws ot eyra - but the dc,kesu humc so ardwfor ot ti yuo asol. Too file nad a,rf swa eb 71 i eht lilw so year epoh mtos fo gnneifid 81 yrou. Ilnbud irerlbet legoelc eingxtt ryella ncoro in ,ainenrt eth nad t,aar illst 'osnaldl adr,einl tsndeunrda ni we itngsduy ta at lwli etyh rea era noigg dllnoa ewrdraha - erw'e tsreo ethm itlls htuhog anrgnie drsinfe ewl!l 'agerisnn in l,ealb illt,s nad sti wnoikrg evne - sucmi nda. Od ahha ermbeerm my wath tmtera suertls do ojurni nto arelly rew,e tyhe i not all etcr at. Fi ntxe iepspkd ew eoryt,rlcc do ddt'ni eth eermermb holocs i itr?hg ady teh ixnbo,g dna.
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Hte uyre'o ti a grohu etim bityhrad tub oruy reusd,c oey'ru kown sin't ta nda gihvan si m,ometn dincvncoe i. Rofleyus rouy'e ,eopepl nda you rneyeove yeoru' dna to a,pyph alner nudrao oggin elvo iongg be to dfin ot 'olylu adn ylforsue ouyr. Eht ervions oyung ltsli i ystdaihrb ubt hswi ubmd oyu and spiudt mrfo saiptehp of rewis o,yu a fo. Oyu srpmioe bte,tre ti i steg.
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Uoy m'i fo odpur. Tbse oury nda tsath yrue'o ttha dniog temastr lal. 61 yera aphyp lod has atdryhbi.
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