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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Dan ordle, eahreitnc you gihtr ewer ymra era. Lnurefa putspor ye,tmss soah teh ,mya golfiwoln teh - dyas ymra ided omeh teh in you tebs ubt go rfo hda oyru adn tserinbdfe oyu hwti ptsne ol'utncd dan. Mcuh slitl pstuopr a opsescr kemsa iegryvnthe ti, os 'im enve hhguto ahnvgi grgntulgis aieers esmtsy to rnreltucy. Kloo asw so ryea but to aehv ot saol tbes - dkeus,c arrwdof het yuo it hcmu shti. So ryuo swa eb ,afr reya engnfidi dna too hpoe the 81 illw smot fo i flie 71. Oerts ,ardleni croon aawrerdh ecgolle hyte in gindytus evne xgtinte llew! aer lleb,a - noigg at tis fenisrd eht laleyr dna slt,il cmsiu tlsli nad hemt sllnod'a llwi hthogu eelrrtib dannusdret irwgnko and atar, in ltsil ear ni nni,trea uidlbn naolld - ew ta wer'e genrnai sragnne'i. Yhet do ta i rtec attmre nrjoiu haha awth lla od ont ton ym ememebrr eer,w lrayel rtesusl. And ecrtory,cl dya tnex eth dti'dn if od piedskp xb,ngio eht ew tgrih? i colhos merbreem.
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It oury si raytbhdi aihvgn our'ye ta hte mtmeon, nad 'euroy nokw a uohrg cnoeicdvn tbu isn't uce,rds i tiem. Ifnd eour'y igong eonevrye vleo ot nad yufeolsr be u'ylol oruy p,peeol appyh, nreal to oanurd uoy ot lfyroseu oeu'ry nad and gigno. Sphpatei a i eht oygnu ubmd ofmr and fo rnvesoi of u,oy ubt ihws uyo swrei siupdt sitll byhaditsr. Emiosrp tseg r,bteet i oyu it.
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Uoy of opdru 'im. Yoru tshta uye'ro nda ttha ignod tresamt bset lla. Old aery sha 61 happy hrabitdy.
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