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...
Tath we uchm anrpmeletny ee,hr so eodvm ilgnov ti. Eth rnfedsi uyo rouy ever hda it nd,eed ouy yuo ayphp ti nda nvee ah,d eov'uy swa it tsirf gouthh ehva steb ewre adn so love, t,fbleuuai igrndu. Ellw sr,tcsepop o!to wen uoy onw puoflleyh lhel'yt hvea nda go.
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And oyu nrehcaeti erwe ole,rd myra rae hgrti. Dcnlt'ou - tsnep nda wlioogfln you ehmo oryu flernua ubt orf hte eth had in idde tebs soah ,mtysse dtirbfeens ydas myar hte putrpos ,mya go adn uoy iwht. Ersaie vetirnghye ,it enve umch eystms ot so i'm ggungrslit tgouhh tlsil eosrpsc aksem euncytlrr opsutrp gavhin a. Sthi to chum lsao utb - it the ot yaer os deu,kcs yuo farodwr oklo saw veha etsb. So eary liwl smot efdningi i 17 fo too oyur eohp het 81 lief eb and wsa ,raf. At nld'aslo urentsddan dan rewe' iennarg at nda idnlub a,rinten wdharrae veen lwli ata,r onroc in ni teh l,ilst in thye etsor - oging alnedi,r we lgeocel hhgotu relyla angrnse'i are ist la,elb dna ronikwg uicsm - reeiltbr lstli fiernds nlaldo htme !wlel sltil rae eitxgnt gtusydin. Ecrt od rutlsse do ettmra twah ont ym yeht ee,rw at aahh tno lal njuiro i lleray rmeerbem. Het if ew dan ady nxte o,gxibn ksppedi i rh?itg ohcosl ecr,ocrytl dnitd' do rembreem eth.
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Oghru hte btu nist' a rceds,u it si ydtbirah dna at vdciecnon tomemn, ruyo uyre'o onwk imet i yuoe'r igvhna. Randuo seufyrol eb aerln ot uyosferl nggio vole dan hp,pya dfni to adn you and nreyeevo to r'yueo urey'o ,oeelpp ouyr oging uy'llo. Shwi a of gouyn risnoev mubd sidput sllit teh but nad teaihpsp dhtibyasr oyu frmo of yo,u seirw i. Segt i uyo smroepi btete,r it.
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Oudrp oyu im' fo. Hatt tthsa odgni uory etbs all 'rouye nda tteamsr. Hpayp sah arey lod tdybihar 61.
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