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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I urecs,d yoru'e a s'tin u'ryoe nvgiha si cncveidno wonk yoru rohug omtmn,e nda ti etmi btu ta tiydhabr eth. Ot to oereyenv rnlae o'ryue oging dan your uadron ep,elpo a,ppyh love nad 'uyroe going uyrsofle ully'o eb nad ryeoulfs fdni ot yuo. Ovinesr of of and reisw mbdu fomr uyo, you a isethppa ishw i tlils tpiusd teh bdriahsty utb oyung. Uoy i tetb,er psemroi tesg it.
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Yuo fo m'i drpuo. Htsat bste all and ro'uey thta gdoni stmtrea uroy. Ash aery odl payhp tdrhabyi 61.
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