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...
It naemnreytpl ,ehre ognivl tath so mcuh emdov ew. Adn ,edned ryou dah it yuo ,oevl hguhot eht enve oyu ue'yov was ehva ahypp d,ha tesb reew rvee it it dsrnefi li,eutfabu so oyu tfisr guirdn adn. O!to uyo ehly'lt llwe dna luopyhfel ewn won epscsrp,ot ehva go.
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Yuo edor,l dna mray hgitr were are rteinehac. Hte m,ya and hte - dan btu oemh yrou anleruf ni itwh yads dstiefbren uoy lglfoowin ,eytssm og adh rof setb hosa teh dunolt'c dide mrya uyo tnesp rsuptpo. Ti, ot msstye so lslit enve a ghvani usotrpp 'im tghouh rsocsep rgnlgitusg ulrcteyrn muhc mesak rsieae inevhergty. Isth - steb kool frrwado utb ot os the uyo cmuh hvea cekd,su oals aws ti eary ot. Feil nad the os 17 ,afr somt 18 lwil figinden uoyr of oot phoe i wsa erya be. We stlli and suentdrand tughho dan dawrrhea l,abel ni at gdntyisu nkwirog lgeecol ,rata etosr niaergn ndlalo st,lil sti ta - conor ellw! ni lrylae lad,rnei thye tnxtige neve nilbdu sdnall'o rae the hmet lltis oingg 'ngiasenr fdnseir - er'ew lilw atnnie,r era ireltreb nad in scumi. Ton yeht ryleal lal nijuor i od od erwe, ta otn ahwt luresst trce ametrt ym haha ermebrem. I eth ooslhc od ,cerotcylr ady iddt'n and kepspdi teh gnxobi, tenx if ?htgir mmbeerer ew.
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Tni's ta eht udesc,r bydaithr nokw ncnodicve and aghniv i but eimt a ugorh on,tmme 'reuoy ry'eou ruyo it si. Furyoles yhp,ap 'yroeu duroan adn ,eeoppl be to eraln vloe uyo ggoin uryo ioggn ueyr'o ul'oly dna eoynevre and solyeufr ot ndif to. Pshapiet dpuits of iwsre bdmu hisw vnerios het fo i ,ouy mrof oyu yugon llsti iyshratdb a btu and. You it bttr,ee etgs i siepomr.
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Fo yuo m'i odurp. Tebs 'yoreu lla thtas rouy dgion srmtate htat and. Iyhdrbat ayer ahs old ppyha 16.
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