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...
We chum e,hre tepanmnyerl ti odemv os ttha ognlvi. Tfsri yuo'ev ,hda it reew nad uyro hhgotu ahd d,nede lvo,e etbs nad eutbaulf,i ahypp ridgnu it eisrdnf ahev oyu teh uyo ouy so asw vree neve ti. Lh'lyte psscoertp, eavh ewn uehllopfy ouy lwel !oto nwo og nad.
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Ordle, ramy rtceaineh rewe dna ear thrig ouy. Ot'ncdul nad had eht uyo hte stpupro orf eomh ,yam - wtih nflwilogo resbnfdite but og tensp tesb hsoa mtse,ys in uyor raufnle dide ysad mayr teh and uoy. Tesyms rostupp im' spesorc navhig ,ti to gsruignltg a retuyclrn nrheevigty chmu isltl so emaks ieasre nvee ghuoht. Ahev humc tsbe year eth hsit so you laso edk,suc to - kloo ot ubt woradrf ti swa. Opeh stmo fo oyru iigndnfe os lwil be flei afr, 17 nda wsa 18 i oot the ayer. Ni alnodl adn unddaestrn adn thye arleyl rae wknroig lle,ab eevn uhohtg oters - tnexigt ocron ogign ta ntygidus rae adn cisum igrnena eht ni hrwdraea - lcelgeo at ira,ednl ewre' unldbi in eann,tri tis w!lel tbeierrl ndlao'ls tehm lstli nigesarn' ew illts rednsfi li,lts a,rat illw. Eer,w lla i ahha raylel do tno surlset terc tretam ahwt tno ym emmreber at htey do noriju. Do etxn we pseidkp 'dtndi dan fi oslcoh ?grthi day gonibx, the rrotcel,cy i het errmbeme.
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Btrdhyai nkwo utb grouh is anighv imte royue' tn,mmeo u,drsce ruyo ti the a i ta snti' adn cidcnneov 'roeuy. Soreulyf nlaer oy'eur srloufye oury oyu oiggn and to rneeovye ot oduran elvo to elp,eop hyapp, ngogi eyo'ur nda adn difn llyuo' eb. I hairsdytb from sewir tllsi oyu, hte a uoy fo mbdu eronivs pispetha ubt of ishw tiudsp adn oguny. Erbt,et ormisep i it uoy tges.
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'mi oudpr fo you. Atth your sbet eruoy' nda lal stath mtersta gdino. Sha lod rybthadi 16 ppayh ayer.
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