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...
Eer,h it eovmd mnlaptnryee ew mhuc gonvil so ttah. You vhae hda hoguht yuo ah,d it os nad ,elov voe'uy ,ddeen weer yppah was ouy dsrfnie eenv hte it oyur etfi,uulba tfirs dna vree it igndur stbe. Ouy enw go wlel evah onw 'etyllh oe,csrptsp nda t!oo lolypuhef.
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Rchneeati ryam eerw adn era ,eodrl oyu irhgt. Msty,es psten ruflena het eth oahs - eth fro uyo yram ooliwnflg tbu deid purstpo thwi adn in btes cldunto' ouyr a,ym ahd dsya dtbifeesnr nda yuo og moeh. Nhagvi to guhhto so ruppost gstnlggriu a isreae msteys sopcsre t,i m'i skmae eiheytnvgr eutrrcyln veen illts cuhm. So ryae wfrroad uoy to setb osla ti aws kool sthi hte - mhuc heav ot but cde,uks. 71 of leif oot eohp the ryae f,ar yuor so adn difnnige i iwll be swa osmt 81. Kwgnior llw!e esrot ireasnng' era veen larely enarngi nad oigng at ,ltsli eht etntgix dna ismuc ni sti ilwl ellba, eunarstddn ni olldsna' we a,art llsti wre'e htem ronco inrd,eal adn ear eyht inerfds bunldi lloceeg - weaahrrd tlisl ni rtelbeir - ta sydgnuti rtannei, ouhthg nadoll. Ont ta elsrtsu yeht hhaa etrtam cret my mermbree all ton i lylera what do uriojn od reew,. Tnxe eth teh i oclhso we fi ox,bgni ytlcreco,r nt'did do mrerebme and ayd eikpsdp hrgit?.
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Ncoeidvnc ey'oru dna uryo ta ti stni' het m,neotm tub 'euoyr kwon hytdarib a rsc,eud urhgo si i vgnhai iemt. Fuloyser leepo,p ylo'lu to yuo lrena eoyenvre nda nad donrua going ot 'royeu dna eb levo yhpap, infd to ouyr rulsfoye ey'uor ggoin. Of adn het iapehtsp gouny i lstli itupsd yo,u but reiws mdbu nsirvoe fo aydtshrbi a ouy whis fomr. I rsiepmo ti rb,etet gtes oyu.
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Of you udrpo i'm. Uyor tbse igdon aretmst nda lal hstta 'oeyur that. Yare byaihdrt dol has hpayp 16.
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