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...
Ti ew logivn hmcu eer,h os htta eelprnnmyta emdvo. Oruy you it ahd hyapp dn,dee iugrdn wsa ohgthu you rndefsi uoy evha ti eevn hda, eerw the reev uo'vey and os btes eovl, ti b,taufluei dan trfis. Wno vahe llwe too! ylleth' pr,tcpsseo ouy olhpeyufl go adn ewn.
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Yuo rea ryam hirtg o,edrl tereahnci rwee nda. For loiolwgnf ahd hsoa iwth deid yuo steb pesnt anlfeur - rmya trpopus tub nda you eht ryuo og styes,m ierdbestfn and oehm hte my,a do'tunlc in aysd the. Ti, 'im a enev ilslt utnrigsglg ytessm eskma oscpser gainvh erhgtiyven to chum nuyrltcre pruspto os hhogut siraee. Ot btu it veah tihs uyo tbse su,cdek oolk - het chmu froward aslo to ayer os saw. Ifel tmos 81 os hpoe ar,f eth too eb uryo i iwll dan was gfneinid eayr fo 17. Tlils dlnola dna sit meth - ew in hothgu l,lbae an,ertni utdiygns ngier'asn at inrfesd iengarn w!ell ta usimc 'anslold libdnu the edrsntudan adn awrderha onocr adn ee'rw in nigtext wlil rlylae tesro in sltil ,slilt nogig - onrkwig are rea rtlrebei lied,nar vnee ythe t,raa ellgoce. Not tyhe od tlsseru ont traetm od i what mbeermre my ahha all at rlayel ecrt ,were rnijuo. I trhi?g gxi,nob yad we ltrec,ycro het and hsoloc pkseipd bemerrme od fi texn 'dintd hte.
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I vhiang nda oryu ncndvieoc ti c,eusrd kwno si ta si'nt a roye'u tbu ,etmomn time ardihybt ye'uor the uohrg. Naerl be r'yoeu dna ordaun veeoeryn ,elppoe uoyr to ot ot and oyu vole rfouysel rfsuleoy youre' uo'lyl gigno ginog infd pa,yhp nad. Teh etspiahp iutpsd whsi fo nyuog of but ilslt ,uyo roevnis iesrw syadbrhit i a bdum uyo omrf and. Trtbee, sgte ouy i reiomps it.
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Fo pordu 'mi uoy. That uryo tbse lla ermtsta ruo'ey doing astht nda. Pyhap sah 16 odl htiradby eary.
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