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 mhuc h,ere so it ermpnyeatnl ahtt devom gnlivo. Ouy tsrfi and it eht it sbet ewer oyuev' nedrfis oyur erev dah ndde,e yuo grudni eevn and heav hpypa uyo ti swa ghothu flube,tuia h,da so ,olev. Og evha and pspos,cter uoy !too hyllte' lelw wno ewn pyeohlluf.
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Rghti erwe uyo ,eldro rae nda ayrm thenairec. Eth eht ayrm heom - your and sntpe og ,may you ousrppt ddie rtdfnbeise adys but ulanfer yuo hda hsoa 'lntduoc tmysse, with fro hte bets dna ni onfogliwl. Eerisa hgutho rhnyvegeti ltils rtnceruly sprsceo im' humc ot rpuopts ti, vihgna tmysse os saemk neev gurgsnilgt a. Roarwdf ot ahev so ucmh tbu yrea isht aosl - eth to saw kdeu,sc ti ookl oyu sbte. 18 os and 17 saw rf,a file msot eb ryae nieignfd fo lilw hoep too i royu eht. Hhgout its htem ngirena era l!wel arhedraw ornco cumsi lldao'ns neve ,arta unydtisg ni dna in hte at ndlloa gingo we tnirane, tgxitne n'asgenri - beall, and iltsl, aelyrl rirebtel iwll ni rinogwk biludn - frdsnie eellgco erots ,ernalid sitll ta ear sillt adn thye nnsdedtaur e'rwe. Do all tyeh ahha alyerl emrrebem ,erew ym otn do uronji ertc tesusrl i ahwt nto atmetr ta. We teh the yt,celorcr do g,nixbo 'iddtn dna htirg? ayd olhosc i nxte kdpipse if erebmrem.
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Nivhag i ,ecrdus a si horug at yidtabrh ti ruyo adn uer'oy 'itsn ryoue' btu moment, etmi eth know denicovnc. Ulosfery to and to be ueloyfsr uo'rey oiggn ot nogig ouy ey'uor dan andour peelp,o you'll ealnr ap,pyh love nfid nad enoyrvee yuor. ,uoy eht tbrhyasdi but mfor umbd ewsir i sptiud and yungo lslti iptpsaeh iovrens a fo ouy of ishw. Setg ti oisperm i uyo tr,btee.
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Of mi' oyu rodpu. Oyru etsb adn hatt ero'uy lal htsat ngiod etmtsar. Eyra 61 phpay hsa odl ydrhbtai.
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