A letter from Sep 18, 2022

Peaceful right?

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...

So repatmnyeln ew e,reh ti thta vemdo hcmu ionlgv. Erwe reev uyo tesb os hthguo vye'ou hda teh it happy idrfnes ti ouy sifrt enev buit,alefu ndiurg le,ov dna nda yuo wsa ,neded ti dha, yoru veha. Nwo enw oyu o!ot ahve og ellw and 'htlely tpsercso,p fleuopylh.
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And era army or,del weer yuo rihgt inathreec. Go cnot'lud ay,m yrou tub ye,tssm orusptp in nad pnest omeh asyd the faurlen wthi steb yuo hda and frdinbstee saoh teh orf ymar eht iedd olgofwlin - yuo. Semka gglrsigntu ot eiaers so chmu slilt i'm oughth etvhegniry nhigav csepors tlyrnruce oprpsut i,t a vene smtsey. Lsoa ot it oolk saw os utb tsih yuo erya tebs - to the humc fdwrrao usck,de vaeh. Too ilef egdniinf llwi eb dna hte 18 aws omts arey uory pheo os fo 71 ,arf i. Ellray blduni ew stlil era eth rea,nnti rea,nidl legleco will eertilbr etnasrdndu ioggn - listl iuydgtns at nad nda nirange neev la'ndols in in in hawaredr llando uohgth terso rsndfei mteh era - smicu knorgwi ythe dan at wll!e tlsl,i sit noorc ew'er esgi'nrna eba,ll getntix t,raa. I haha layler e,rew eyht od at amtter my juonir lal mbreerme ertc od atwh etslrsu nto tno. Eth txne lohcos htr?gi ,iobnxg dna fi i sedppik ,tycecrrlo dya hte od we emrberem tnid'd.
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Ti i tdhbiary etmi euryo' het hgour dna ovdcneicn r'oyue oyru nwko ta hvigan is 'stni om,mtne r,sduec utb a. Oyu to ,yhapp reneevyo 'eoruy ,loeepp eolv to ronuad ngigo nda 'ouyll laenr ggino to be rouy'e dna nifd dna oruy oeuslrfy oueysrfl. Uoygn i wish the adn rvonesi a iswer u,yo of paipehst umdb sbiyhadtr ofmr but of lilst uyo tsdipu. Ouy ertbe,t gest ti i miespor.
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Oyu fo duopr i'm. Ashtt eu'roy and all gnodi estb oyru rstteam hatt. Iabdhtry yhapp old 16 ayre ahs.

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