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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Amry gtirh rhciaenet era eewr dan ,oderl uyo. Arym arnfule dna utb twih ,mya eth dyas - isnebdrtef stenp o'lcudnt in eht puortsp giwlfloon you omeh eddi uoyr had yme,tss the dan uoy go aosh ofr esbt. M'i ilstl scespro ntycrelru ot vene os aerise cmhu it, htguho a msetys ahnvig suoptrp emkas rluingtsgg ynhgietvre. Uoy shti reay veah umch etbs ,uecskd ofwdrar lsao kloo to to hte so ti swa - but. Enfidnig afr, eht too erya lief be i 18 llwi adn fo aws smto os 71 uroy oehp. - l!lew ronco oghuth biunld lslit reaawhdr inettgx ll,aeb lliw nneirag nigusytd ndolsl'a oigng ni iart,enn at ew irokgwn dna yarlle nad laodln d,inelra are loclege nerifds tyhe nad at - etreirlb lslti in vnee otsre 'rewe ntsaundrde era aa,tr ni usicm sit temh 'gaesnirn ,lstil hte. Utselrs remtta eemrmber cret od ton ont at all eer,w od hwta ym ujrion ahha yraell i they. I xnet eht od lohcso ew g?rthi yteco,rrcl day fi eispdkp mereebrm the dn'idt ,xnbiog adn.
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Ns'ti yero'u t,meonm rohug teh oruey' at emit vcendncio de,rcsu is dna uroy vignha hdabtyri tbu i wkno it a. Ersolyuf rou'ey eb to lofusyer ully'o unorad ndif ouy ot hya,pp ggoin oruy orevynee nigog love laenr 'eyrou to ,pleeop and and dna. Fo umdb a romf i duistp the fo hbtdrasyi dna peihspta wrsie ugnoy ouy but you, sllti swih roiesvn. I it yuo eopsirm stge ttebr,e.
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Of 'mi uodrp oyu. Reamtts bste dan ttha ahtst lla yor'ue ryuo idnog. Ahs 16 yrae hrdbiyat ppyha odl.
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