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...
Hcum nvogil so vomde it thta erh,e we tlenanmryep. Frtis dha hte d,nede uo'vey vere dan even dunrig was eiabtfu,ul ,loev thguoh ti heva ouy tebs os yuo ti idfsrne ti dna yppah rwee uoy yuor ah,d. T!oo og ahve seorsp,cpt yuo 'hlelty ewn llwe nad eohlfulyp now.
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L,rdeo rea ouy tnihceera mray dan erwe tghri. Sbte tbeierdsfn utocdl'n smtes,y oyu ni hte psoptru dan ouy og asyd ddie your oemh hte ptnes btu hwti fro dah raenufl hosa mayr eht gwlilfoon - amy, adn. Iesrae hthoug rtspupo orssecp emksa vene 'mi ltgrngusgi vghrieteny lslti a ultecrryn ot it, so mytses gavhin cmuh. Hmcu frorwad aws to ot sebt veah uoy - but ti olko ksecud, eyar htis eth os oals. Ayre efli ruyo tmso f,ra eb het dinginef of 81 dna oot wsa llwi so 17 i ohpe. Liwl nda rndaudsnet ni in trebrlei tehy eolcleg tra,a nad llw!e dlner,ia rgwokni veen dna mteh niggo tintxge at dalonl in orcno ,elbal ng'arensi rdehwraa fnerdis - tisll ninr,eat n'lslaod lsilt erangin ryleal - rtsoe hte ew at sll,ti gdusntyi sit cisum 'wree ndlbiu era era hoghut. Ewr,e my mterta tno od lealyr etyh i haha od tno ta all ebrmerme usetsrl hatw uojrni rtce. I hooscl i?thrg adn pesidkp yda ntex ermremeb n'tidd yco,rlrcte hte teh ,gobnix if do ew.
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'tnsi eo'ryu decnnciov urey'o eth uohgr is n,emomt dna but it at meit ur,ceds abhytdir a yruo kown i vhinag. Fndi ouylfrse uory and rnlae vloe nda ginog leep,op eb ruyoe' ouy dan olu'ly to ot ynreeevo ot hapy,p 'euoyr dnuaor ggnio yuslefro. Of upsitd mbud aihtdrsby sptehiap but sihw teh weris a mfor fo iltls nad uy,o snroiev i uyong yuo. Mspreoi i uoy egts it eerbtt,.
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'mi fo yuo oudrp. Tstarem setb euo'yr nad yuro lla htat thast dingo. Hyppa old 61 rybdiaht ahs raye.
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