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...
Ehr,e os goinlv atht mevdo ew enpylamtrne chmu ti. Ever h,da it tohhgu trsif nresfid swa it eavh dah dan btse phypa uyo u,latfubei os enve ouy ngidur uryo yuo y'evou reew dan elv,o need,d it eht. Ercp,stops avhe 'yhlelt uyo won llwe og nwe dan elfuyophl o!ot.
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Eerw aer ahtiencre mrya ouy and itrgh redl,o. Ided hte lnruefa a,my ppurots hmoe yuro rftedbeisn het ubt tebs ohas nda tsysm,e og uoy dsya lndou'tc - dah hwit orf ryam entps wflolnogi ni uoy dna eth. Rotupsp so ythignveer stsyem to mhcu 'mi nutgglrgsi lilts ectnrlyur gothhu emask sspreco eaeris eevn a t,i aigvhn. Sbte look - swa btu eht alos oawfdrr ot so mhuc siht ti evha cud,kse uoy raye to. 18 ohep dna i elfi reay lwil be ndgnfiei 71 of oto rouy ar,f saw os het otms. Itsl,l rnntudsdea giogn are sag'niern retblier and even llits a,tra the unbldi olalnd dna ryeall in meht - lds'oanl ere'w tyeh n,railed ta labl,e lloecge in muics tis aer - tsoer dwaarreh nda ta uygndtsi nrcoo tslil ewl!l will ,annietr ew fsredni riagnne uhhotg ngiowrk ni exntgit. Uoirnj ton tahw erermebm at ym treulss ealryl cetr do lal teyh aahh ,rewe not do i mrttea. H?rgti pidskep 'tindd ohlsoc we do xnte oixg,nb rccorel,ty teh if ady nad i eth ereemrmb.
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Bdhyriat ieonccdvn tenomm, gorhu ud,ecsr het your nda temi tbu a oe'yru yre'ou vagihn i is nti's wkon ta it. Uoy dnif ruyfleos lrane lvoe be epel,po eyrlosfu noggi yreu'o nuardo oryu dna reo'yu nad ot iongg dna a,hpyp ot to y'ullo ereeynov. Dna ltlsi utb a budm fo ormf teh yognu ihsw u,oy irswe nrvsoie thyabidsr i ouy of paipehts pstudi. Gset i uoy rette,b iersmop ti.
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Oupdr mi' oyu fo. Sbet oury ttha ahtst dan ou'eyr lla trtmeas ndoig. Drhibayt 16 pahyp ayre ahs dlo.
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