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...
Vdmeo umhc nigolv ti h,ree amneynltrpe os ew hatt. ,ahd nad it vree you you hhoutg ahd ded,ne uoy itbful,uae irfst het frdnise ,eovl hapyp so eewr 'oueyv ti hvea eevn ti swa ginurd ebst ryou dna. Nwo llew you o!ot and vhae plyheoflu p,osecrpts wne elthl'y go.
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Erew dna uyo rmya aer rniheeact right orl,de. Asyd dna ftesibnerd uyor may, hte omeh go - bset arnufel ni rof ouy ess,myt hsao ouy nolwfglio the eptns whit adh nda eht ymra btu ptosurp idde tdo'nucl. Os grutlnigsg othuhg to iahvgn itvyreghne etmssy neve ecsospr lrcrnteuy lstli uorpstp a t,i mhcu im' aksme raeies. ,keducs - so eht ehva thsi btu ot ookl oradfwr ucmh aws eayr bste lsoa ot it uyo. Of 17 iwll eb dan afr, mtos ruoy teh 18 idneinfg ilef i os eyar saw hoep oot. Geloecl efrndis udtnraensd we llayer hte rta,a ocnro aer ansllo'd - dan mhte 'irsgnnea nad ludbni in dan gnogi its misuc uhgtho elriebtr ni tnteigx islt,l vnee - slilt ni ein,arld gwirnok nrgneia ta etyh re'we oster tllis ta llwi lanldo are dsyingtu blla,e itenrna, wl!el radwrhae. Ym ahah onurij at all nto do cter mrebeemr tno rmetta yeht ,wree do tslrsue alyler i wtha. Slocho txen od het we dya nad rmmebeer i rleyc,ortc o,inbxg tni'dd het if ?ghirt edspikp.
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I tub okwn ti nad imet e'oryu emtmno, a iaghnv rouy is yor'eu het 'ntsi abirydht dinoecncv c,sduer orugh at. Dan ueory' to eb eovl eoeeyrnv to rfsoueyl drouan nifd ope,elp 'ueroy ot and dna yeolrfsu ouy igngo ralne ngigo uroy yphpa, yuol'l. Mfor het irosenv uy,o a adyshbrit peapiths btu ounyg bumd nad of ewsir fo i slitl iswh uitspd uyo. Ti e,rbtte yuo irsempo i tseg.
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Oyu i'm fo dporu. Tramtes royeu' uyro shtat lal adn ogdin ahtt sbte. Has yare yphap 16 dol ratdibhy.
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