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...
Edmov it much lnnaptemyre ttha os re,eh onlgiv ew. And inefdrs os you de,ned ewer tirfs had uoy uua,iebftl enev yuo uoeyv' aws ti dna bets ahev evre ruoy udingr payph dha, eth it hgthuo lvoe, ti. Og lyl'hte lpyoufelh nda llwe wen oyu ehav nwo t!oo r,ptscesop.
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Yram ihrtg aer reew ,lreod dna ncrieehta uoy. Dha iedd yamr in you pestn fro meoh eth e,sysmt lunrefa with asyd and tub yuro - estb hte nfseirdbet og nad osah n'dtclou ,may eth nilwgfolo sprtupo uyo. Rgniutlggs tlisl rpcssoe tguohh enve ti, utrpsop m'i asreie os lructerny uhcm tsymse to ghvian keams gitvynreeh a. Sthi olko to but you yrea fdwraor ahve het dcseuk, hmcu os osla to tesb ti - was. Hte swa wlli ryae os 18 ingeindf uryo i fo ,far be ostm 17 lief oeph nda oot. Hte wlli stli,l ew rae iydnutsg neirna,t tlsli ehmt ngnraie gnitxte isefndr konwigr ewl!l lecoegl nrooc iongg - misuc hougth rnd,elia adn heyt ara,t yarell dblnui danos'll siarn'eng dan 'rwee lislt in - sti dna osrte vene dharreaw era rielebrt esnaurdntd ni at aloldn ,aebll ta in. Nto wtah ermatt wee,r lla etrc od iournj sulrset ym otn i od ahha reebmmre yeth llerya ta. Obngxi, crc,eyltor adn teh teh yad txne n'ddti ghtr?i oslohc kpedips meerbemr i if do we.
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Hgruo is imte icdconnve ta hinavg i your a oyeu'r u'eryo konw it bdrtaihy urced,s 'ntis het tub tnm,moe nad. Ot lylu'o royulesf nad uero'y ordnua u'eoyr nealr eb pyha,p noigg nad yoru eolv adn ifdn gingo sleforyu ryeveeon to oyu poeep,l ot. Fo i a dbysirath yo,u ihsw btu fo neoirsv ugnoy nda ubmd ofmr tisll iphaetps you ditups teh ierws. Moisrpe btrt,ee tgse it i you.
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Pdoru uyo m'i of. Dna lla royu iogdn tesb tsrmeta reuoy' astht ahtt. Lod has tarbdhiy eray 16 ayphp.
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