A letter from Sep 18, 2022

Peaceful right?

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 so umch ,rhee plenratenmy modve ti oglvin ttha. Adh l,oev it nda firesdn it vere hte you ouy ,adh nad ppyah strfi dnede, rduing hvea evne os lbeuit,afu ewer ruyo etbs ti oyu yeouv' ouhthg asw. Go wlle h'eyllt eptossc,rp new oot! vhae and now ohfyeplul oyu.
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Eewr you rghit amyr nad hacrteeni era lroed,. Rof aym, in deid oyu dha npste heom tesb yarm stouppr dan feralun esymst, ubt ahos you hte aysd hte lwnoogifl dna go ibsferdtne hiwt oyur teh cu'ntldo -. So ltsil ksmae pturosp hiavng it, a eaeris veen espcors heirvgtyne hgohut ntgilrgsgu 'mi muhc ytlcruren tmsesy ot. Adfrrwo cuhm - so haev ti yaer soal sbte oolk ot hsti swa ot utb kc,dues eht uoy. Asw oryu os be oot reay eht fo ,rfa innfdieg iefl will 71 pheo adn i 18 ostm. Hrdaware aelb,l tsi,ll in ehty hte at and ee'wr aer gxintet resto tgudyisn eiargnn nda ew in wll!e arat, orikwgn eitrbrle thuhgo ladlno aeitnnr, erisnfd wlil sit adn at ni nntseudrad lrlaye oalsn'ld ongig mhet lilts i,dnealr ornco csmiu llsti nrnagie's cgeello - - ear neev blunid. Hwta i otn uijron wre,e terc ton ym od lla do armtet haha ta lsrteus reermbem laelyr hyte. Do nda bgo,ixn i ebemmrre tnxe pikspde yda if ew hte ?rgith r,ecrcloty het oolhsc d'ndti.
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Grouh st'in wkno a dan eou'yr iccendvno yoeur' eth is ti bradhtyi at uory i item en,tomm d,uecsr nvgiah tbu. Roeveyen 'rouey rnael dfni osufyrel onigg 'eryuo oy'lul p,yaph dna eepp,ol evlo usrfeoly eb ot to adonur nad ot going nad uoy uroy. Apsithpe tbu a you ofmr esrwi tslli yuo, nda yonug wshi bdum nvisero of fo i rihydtbas het tdiusp. E,tterb uyo ti orpisem tesg i.
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M'i of yuo prduo. Gndoi tthsa and ryou ttha lal oryeu' raesmtt estb. Old sha rtdiyabh erya 16 phayp.

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