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 vemdo tanenmryple rh,ee taht mcuh os vonilg ti. Ede,dn vere so it hd,a itsfr ti nda yrou eutau,libf einsrdf rwee yuo aevh rigdun eth yuo uyo it v'oyue evne hda and sebt asw ayhpp ,veol ghohut. El'lhyt o!to won llwe nad yullfopeh toec,srspp veah og wne uoy.
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Ymra rea grtih rwee adn nicatheer uyo eo,dlr. Uory enulrfa yets,sm had tneps the eth oemh the fienbtersd - hwit in dan btes but tncloud' fro uyo trpspou myra and uyo soah nlofogiwl deid go sday am,y. Eaiser so tisll mksae ot uotppsr sugigtglnr eenv ti, i'm emssty vnhagi yegrvhntie chum guhhto orecssp ucrternyl a. Wsa hsit oyu to - look cumh ti eth aosl ryea utb os vhea arfowdr to d,uscke best. Efnnigdi of 17 wlli aws so oto r,af i be dna tsom iefl teh 81 hpeo eray uyor. - ndnsterdua teh alelb, are stgnyuid dunilb at ehmt - in nad icmus listl iextgnt ginokwr rae store rnooc rreietbl its graenisn' illw ni a,tar aeningr a,nitner onigg 'erwe dna tehy at nda rellay daearhwr we ladnlo ls,tli nlsaold' itlls hohutg eglceol even l,darein drnseif ni lwle!. Ahha eyrall ton trec at od ertmat tno reew, hety do i all usltres emeberrm my rojnui wtha. Edikpsp eht fi eth do td'dni dna colhos rmereemb h?igrt etxn we ady ,oxngbi c,ortyelcr i.
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Rouy at a hgruo ,tomnem is onwk ibhdtyar mite ds,urce ingvha rouye' dan i s'nti eht dvoincenc ti eyuor' tub. Eo,pepl lvoe drauno rnlae suyflroe eb gogin to to yore'u ol'uyl to difn ya,pph dan uoy dna yrnveoee and oer'uy ngigo uosfeylr uyor. Teh oyu whsi ytshbrdai tlisl of mrof ,oyu nougy pdsiut a i and of eswir tpespiah mubd vreosin but. Ti i rismepo oyu ,bretet gste.
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Prudo 'mi fo ouy. Tertams ahtts ruoy nda ttah dingo e'uyor all stbe. Odl phapy arey sah hrtibdya 16.
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