A letter from Sep 18, 2022

Peaceful right?

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...

Humc eh,er ognivl so nepnemtylra we dovem tath ti. Ppahy had yo'uev etsb tfrsi and aws veer uyo ti iafe,utlub het ti ,dha evne so aevh ohthgu nedde, wree ouy uoy oevl, udrngi sdfrnie oyru it and. O!ot eh'tyll roe,scptsp og onw ewll and yuo nwe oeplhfylu veha.
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Tnreaehci dna ,erdol rewe rmya rae oyu htrgi. O'dlcunt nad tprupos oemh lowofngil - hwit og yam, royu defrinbtes tbse uoy rof rlufena uyo asho iedd tsmy,es adys teh had utb arym in nad tnspe het the. Hvinga ltlsi a nlteruyrc mhcu eoscpsr inugsglgrt os i,t veen ot i'm pousrpt smetys eaksm hyigvreent oghuth eareis. Yare hte os loko sith to uchm - oyu ti saw alos d,keusc ebts aevh warodrf ot tbu. 18 os stmo a,fr oehp ilfe i eb of rouy saw egifndin 71 reya eht oto lwli adn. Rhdearwa - llsti ere'w in snll'oda dna at - bl,ale ni bluidn ear adn at gotuhh cusmi ll!we tsi at,ra itnydsug meht iear,tnn ornoc etilebrr lwil gnwkrio tgienxt sdrfnie ngarsn'ie htey in ggino and rae ngnaire erlyal elolgce rteso dnr,elia odnall vnee dnenustrad istll ,lstil teh ew. Ont do erbreemm ethy ym lal juniro ,were trce ta tahw tno lrleay i rusltse ttmear do hhaa. Emmebrre xnet sloohc fi teh rctcoryel, gxbno,i eht esdkipp tirhg? od ew idtnd' i day adn.
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Eyuro' eht si i u'yreo gohur ruoy ,erdscu okwn vaihng mm,otne ti at tbu ccionenvd 'isnt item a adn birahytd. Elusorfy nlare ouye'r ppha,y nreevoye dan ggion uroy le,pope eyorlsfu and ggoin nad ouy eolv difn to uondar ot oyru'e eb ot y'uoll. I astphipe fo tlsli uyo eth tudpis hswi sdthbairy wersi veionrs a nad frmo fo tbu nugyo ,oyu bdmu. Gset it ouy irmpeso er,tbte i.
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Yuo rodpu mi' of. Sbet re'ouy esttrma thtas ryuo atht all dna ndigo. Arey atihbdry old 61 has hppya.

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