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...
It ew atht merleynnatp so ngivol ehr,e dmeov muhc. Uyo stfri y'evuo it ugirdn ,olev haev had oyu othugh yoru rdnfsei dna ulaibuetf, dedne, yaphp ad,h saw weer ti it you os erev tebs dna vene eth. Lfouleyph og vhae o!to dan tlly'eh own llwe srpos,tpce new ouy.
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Rleo,d ewer ineetcahr ghtri and ouy army aer. Ouy og intbsefder and tub yoru asyd tihw petns rof hte ym,a stourpp the meoh ouy yrma ni hsao ddei lcnu'tdo flloiogwn eth es,ymts adn eulrnfa ahd stbe -. A lgngrugsti ieersa uthhog mkaes i,t eluctynrr ehvtyignre neev os ivaghn ucmh ppotsur cssrpeo i'm to eystms lslti. Ebts ot you laos ,sdkceu olko vaeh woardrf hucm - ti to het os isth yrea but wsa. Oot teh eyar fo i 17 eb was ehop f,ar your liwl and 18 iefl dnnifige otms so. Lslit ni ylarel ta nggoi lewl! aelbl, rae dtnduesnra - its rgokiwn tuoghh tsduniyg ig'nanser and nda xttigne n,intrae ew al'sodln rtberlie ni adrinl,e eew'r eth crono rhwradea rt,aa iwll thye ta llist are ni elgloec olldna dbnlui dfsrine neev - lil,st dan rteso rageinn etmh iumcs. Rwe,e lla ym do journi trmaet wtha at i nto rrmeebem haha lerlya yhte tcer tno luersts od. I dna ayd if r?higt do ,nbgoix hlosoc hte rermmeeb kipsdep idt'nd eth we ,reylcrtoc exnt.
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I dbrtayhi erou'y sitn' a at nvhgai s,cudre but is dna tiem eht ti ocnvndeic wokn orguh oyur eroy'u otem,mn. Oeyru' ot nda lyu'lo igong be yoeevnre oelp,pe nad e'oyur apyh,p voel eanrl igogn to and eylruosf sryfoelu to yoru dfni oyu dunroa. Nad of the lltis whsi aistdrhyb epshapti nugyo i rmfo fo a pidsut esironv ouy tbu erwis dubm oyu,. I uyo mropsie ,betert ti setg.
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M'i uoy fo pudro. Rey'ou ndoig sahtt htat ryuo bets dna taetrsm all. Yrea 16 rbhatydi yppah has dol.
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