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...
Pelnrnmatey ew it taht r,eeh so mchu dmove violgn. Reew asw hte nad hpyap el,vo ouy evne it so dden,e ti d,ah ahve estb ouyv'e ti ghtuoh you rstfi adh renfsid uoy eevr ridgun dan uroy aulif,ubet. Fuheyllpo go wlel dna stopcpr,es ehav t!oo new now you hy'llet.
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You ihgrt elo,dr yrma dna nteeachir ewer are. Ahso porsupt dha 'ulnotdc ouy ymra rof - eht enpts asdy nad yoru ni ebts aenuflr og y,am ,ymests teh nda ouy iedd ihwt golonlfiw rdefnsibet the ehmo but. Tlrcnueyr trsignlggu so ievyreghtn scspoer eenv ,ti meysts mkeas seeira to tilsl mhuc a ohhtgu psprtou vanigh m'i. ,eucskd itsh ti btes uoy mhcu wfrdora tbu - hte aslo yaer os saw oklo to ot evha. I osmt nda eth 18 afr, be so efigndin ryou epho swa wlil of iefl too eray 17. Edraawhr we eyht duintgys ocron a,nterni resot eevn at ndbilu ear micsu ltlis defnisr ,stlil lalb,e ni lilw ta lsand'lo tsi reew' - and nogig naeilr,d dna tilsl aer dnnudsrate het - htem rnnegia lnolad in relyla eellgoc in ara,t adn gwknoir nittxge grnisa'ne lereirbt ohugth well!. Rebemmre nto i od tyhe at orijun my tmaetr aahh tawh not llarye wer,e do sluesrt all erct. Eth yda hlcoso crlcryteo, teh tr?gih if ebmrerem we od itdd'n dieppks gbix,no i and etnx.
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Oruye' u'orye ti itme nemotm, btidrahy hnaigv sin't cenondicv utb royu dan i eht hruog euc,dsr a onkw is at. Alren neorevey ot unador yo'rue nad u'lylo to yeuo'r ofeurlsy ggnoi levo adn iogng orlsufye p,loeep uroy hapyp, to adn eb oyu dnfi. Eth of i adn sarbyihdt stlil ,oyu mrfo isptdu a of uyo appheist noirevs iwres hisw tbu bmdu gnoyu. Miopsre rtteb,e tgse i oyu it.
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Udorp fo you m'i. All yruo 'eryuo satth thta dan ingod tbes sramett. Aytbdhir eyra 16 ash lod pphay.
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