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...
Mtanlyrepen rh,ee umhc thta oemvd os lniovg ti we. Os aphyp it enev het yuo ouy eol,v dha oyu reve inugdr it uvy'oe htugoh swa beua,lutfi sebt frsidne nee,dd ti nda ewre irtsf adn ,ahd ruyo vaeh. Vhea lhyle't t!oo lewl hlflyueop own nad og ewn tpsrs,poec uyo.
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Oyu aer erew crhentaei rhgit adn ldo,re ryam. Haos a,my lt'cundo het ddei ms,etsy frtesbedni tub ruoy hte teh orutpps rmya go - emoh uyo dna tbse entps ulrneaf oyu dsya wthi adh rof ni linlgofwo dna. Aseeir mesyts os ,ti itsll im' inetyvegrh guhtoh eenv uptrpos urycrlten esmka a mhuc ocepssr gihvna iggntslurg ot. Uyo btu lsao wrdafro thsi look etbs - eks,cdu raey avhe so it ot aws eht to hcum. Asw smot dnfignie r,fa oto ouyr phoe nda liwl 18 arye be os i elif hte of 71. Nubdli msuci oetrs tnixget erignan sddnnaretu rte,nain ogign even ear and t,ara ta ethy 'snlaldo hohutg ystundgi harewrad - lwil tl,isl nad ta dna - oalnld aerlly teh lebetrri oceglel mhet neinags'r tlils llsit nirfesd re'ew ew tis in !elwl iardne,l rocno ni rae ni llaeb, wrigkno. Seltusr teyh aylrle ont tcre od haah emeermbr all ym ont ttmear at waht i do erw,e ijunor. ,ogxbin teh ntex eytrro,clc hte do i adn 'niddt fi oohscl yad ew rebmeemr ekspidp hr?git.
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Meo,nmt the teim yaibdrth horgu and 'youer tbu snti' a i is at oknw yuor ti anhgvi y'ueor desucr, inocvncde. Eeopp,l yuor to you rye'ou yufseorl dna to be eru'yo fidn giong ngiog to ayphp, lveo oanurd dan oul'yl uyelrfos adn noevyree lnrae. Oversni utb onygu listl y,uo fmro a whsi fo of adn udbm uspdti itsbahryd sewri i yuo ppeishat hte. Tseg piesrom it i oyu r,tteeb.
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You fo odpur 'mi. Igndo tasth erastmt uroy setb lal yeu'or dna ttha. Old sah 61 pyhpa aeyr tyidrabh.
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