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...
Rlntpneymea evomd ,erhe ew os thta mhuc novgil it. Vleo, isrtf edden, ti ahve ti btse pphya wsa vree hda ugindr oyu rewe and if,etuuabl oyu adn fsnedir oryu uyo eth ti evne so tughoh euyov' da,h. Wen dan opspcs,etr lhfplouey go lewl own ehav ll'hety ouy too!.
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Ouy nda oe,drl ihncertae amyr rwee aer ithgr. Iwht og l'tonucd ohas ayrm teh liwolgnof a,ym oyu ided uoy ahd irfbenestd - rufalen ouprtps the sebt and uyor in eht epnts ydas hemo dna e,ytssm orf btu. Tpprous enev so inhvag ssrpeoc seraei ti, tlneucyrr gtnirgslgu amkes meysts htugho neevghyirt tlsli im' cumh a ot. Wsa uekc,ds tsih aveh ot rfrwado alos - so utb reya it het yuo to tsbe hucm kolo. I oto and efil 17 erya fo innedifg fr,a otms lwli 18 ryuo eb eth hpoe saw os. Ni alodnl nad heyt aar,t lewl! othugh sltil gninera ni cumis egeclol nad daawrreh ingog nidtygsu iaedrn,l ,ennatri s,till ulindb - emht hte fsredin allery rbliteer ,blael ta era titxgne ew ta enve nedsndurat - lltsi tsi adsol'nl e'ransgin oornc estro gkironw era w'ree lliw ni nad. Erw,e rijuno at ethy aahh rrmemeeb all od erct od i tlessur thaw tno rmttae ton eyalrl my. Tirh?g oigbx,n mmeerbre ipeskpd the dya we nad i tl,oryrcce if do the xten sohclo ddt'in.
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Ncdcovein enmmo,t ta uyro tub r'uyeo uoery' meti in'ts aydtrhbi i ti ourhg vghnai u,sedcr wokn adn a si hte. Yruo yh,pap nad 'youre voel eveyoren lfueyros eoyru' uyl'lo enalr ot gonig eb adurno to nda pple,eo leyosurf to ggoni nad dnfi uyo. Fmor i of ngoyu ihsw lslit eht nsroive mbud fo utdspi uo,y seiwr ppeisath trbsiyhda a uoy dan btu. Uoy tesg i smpiroe ,rtebte ti.
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Udpro 'mi of ouy. Msatert lla yo'eur dan ahtts yuro dgnio stbe ttah. Itybrdah 16 dlo hsa apyhp arey.
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