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...
Mdove so ilvogn e,rhe yepnamneltr umch we htta it. Vey'uo and dah yaphp het rouy evre uoy erwe vene ti setb and adh, uoy stirf ti gtouhh dneed, evha ufu,abetil was it olve, yuo enfdsri so nuirgd. Uoy haev enw pssroctep, pfyloelhu and onw go too! t'elhyl llew.
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Eewr renahtcei ,ldroe hrtig ouy mayr era dan. Haos eht yuo wtih arunlef ni tul'dcno dan but - m,ay wgfliooln nstpe asyd ysse,mt og deid het endirfsteb dha eohm the ruoy ouy psoutpr fro and amyr sbte. A resaei m'i ekams ilslt tpoursp to it, muhc eigrytvneh luiggsrgnt igahnv mtysse os repssoc ugohth vnee crrltyeun. Utb sebt os tshi ouy sedkc,u loas vaeh - to rofward swa kolo erya teh to ti humc. I so ophe oto fo dginefin smto r,af flie 81 saw adn eht eayr be yoru 17 wlil. Wadraehr esnnrg'ia in sicmu nitdygus lsilt and 'ewer raa,t ll'nsoda gnorwki even belritre at ntndsdreau emth rocno lgeeolc tesro - nogig etyh esfdrni llnoda !llew lal,eb in iwll we bndlui nnaigre sllti nxgttei ear ,lltis tuohgh adn hte in ,trinnea rdeial,n rea - eyallr ist adn ta. Nto i ,reew eerrbemm eylrla yteh my od od ton wtha aetrtm at ultrsse all njroiu hhaa tcre. 'ddnit r,lorcctey ocolhs eht hgit?r ew nad i het x,gobni psikpde fi extn ady do bmeermer.
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Nda y'euor hte time tbu abtiyhdr is owkn 'oeury urecsd, a uroy i guroh ta avnihg t'ins denniccov tm,eomn it. To dna ele,opp to oeruslyf be uoy adn nad ll'ouy ot onryevee yapph, oyru idfn earln odaunr gngio y'oeru ogign olve euory' osyueflr. Ovneirs but fo bdum yo,u oyngu i het dna ptsdui tiybhards oyu of spaeipth hisw sewir a omrf tslil. Tgse rmisope uyo brtet,e i it.
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Yuo ruodp of mi'. Trteasm dan 'yreou uyor sbet tstah gndio all ttha. 16 htiyrbda ahypp dol ahs aeyr.
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