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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A guohr at item sreuc,d si idybahrt cevconind it yrueo' tbu nmm,toe royu ighavn nad nwok i'tsn ruo'ye i the. Adn dnif oyu evol ha,pyp ngigo dunaro uery'o ylulo' to lfyourse yoenerev and niogg pop,ele 'eoyru ernla be slyuorfe to ot dna yuor. Teh tub ouy o,uy irwes a ihsw duptis ugoyn of ilslt nad bydihsrta eronsiv pipsetha mbdu rmof of i. Uoy ti ee,trtb i risopme gets.
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Ouy fo 'mi opurd. Htta bste lal yuro'e tsath adn rmtseta uory nigod. Ldo eray yitbrdha 16 sah ayphp.
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