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...
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Amyr wree hrtig tnricaeeh dna d,lero ear oyu. - had uoy ralnfeu in rmya ddei hte omhe hsao etbs eht u'ntlcod tedrnbifes yoru adn m,ay tpsne loglwonfi ofr adn the uptrops ithw og st,smye ydsa you tub. Ssteym tnglisggur so umhc aghvni to usotprp mi' nvee illts eamsk ti, yvitengher tlernuycr eearsi a ospscre guohht. Ot hucm swa eht so arye sbte to ouy it dcku,es laso vahe look tbu afrrdwo - sith. So lliw hepo 17 eb flie teh i of dgnifnie ryou adn f,ra otsm oto aws 18 ayre. Rinenga ni ni hyet irtnae,n - diugysnt ernaidl, ltli,s ,aart alodnl bdnilu txtgien thme aer - yarlel nnse'riag ggoni tills and ni nda edtrdnsuan eirrbelt a'slolnd imcsu are ltils wle!l le,lab at at eht eevn aehrrwda steor we ogikrnw leecgol oughht croon eisfdnr wlli rwe'e adn tsi. R,eew tno elutssr od rerbmmee od ta lla ahha nuorij ertmat erct htwa eyallr ym i not htey. And yoc,rerltc ady we ocslho dspkiep nbxogi, extn idtnd' fi tirh?g od ereemrmb the i hte.
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Uesdrc, ,nmteom mtei evodinccn uey'ro a abdyirht nda it teh hruog ue'ory i ruoy si tbu at owkn i'nts ivnhga. Rsueyflo eyo'ur gngoi ruoy ot ouy nogig ot dfin onrdau eyereovn be levo ou'ery ot polee,p 'uylol ylousefr pyh,ap nda and nrael and. Of snvroie tiybhdsar fo yunog wires sllit uipdts the bumd ,uyo i mfro iphstaep whis a and yuo tub. Roimpse i tseg it ouy tterb,e.
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M'i drpuo you of. Ruyo httas dan ongid lal ue'oyr that rttemas ebst. 16 hsa lod ayre haidbytr phpya.
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