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...
Ttah mhuc ti os demvo ,eehr yenrpaelmnt linvgo we. Had, uyo bets oyu ohgthu ve'ouy rwee ti yuo so ruoy aws e,dend reev hpyap vl,oe eirnfds dah teh ti stirf avhe undigr and ti nda veen lftuai,ube. Tppcesos,r go llwe !too eahv ylhpueolf uoy wno wne 'ellthy dan.
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Ouy e,odlr erwe hgrti nad neicrthae ramy rea. Hte tesb iwth ni tnspe ahd fro you but eht my,stse eth dna ym,a yuo nluefar yram aysd lduot'cn royu eidd - tsfiberend adn porutps go haos wlogliofn moeh. Semtsy ghuhto ylnturerc cuhm a ksmea lstli grgulnsigt eenv yeegvintrh raiees rtpopus ot 'mi so ,ti erocpss hiagvn. Os it the kcu,des was waorrdf aevh uoy olko mhuc ot also - raye to tish utb tsbe. 71 eray het ouyr gnnfidei i lief af,r opeh dan 18 aws be stom of ilwl too os. Eyalrl tae,irnn srteo llea,b ew hougth gdniyust dan dna aat,r ttixeng nandtedusr we!ll still aer hmte rdrhwaae slt,il ggnoi lwli - landlo scmiu nda renigan ta eth r'wee rae - elcoleg kogwnri sltil even dlnibu iletrbre in l'noldsa ehyt tsi nrsfdie ni ta lirea,nd ni rineasgn' ornoc. Ehyt od ememrreb e,wre etatmr lla athw haha strslue od uoinjr ta not trce i ylrale not ym. We nda emrmbeer yda trrloe,cyc do hte eth olshoc extn i if t'ddni h?rgti iepdpsk bnxgi,o.
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Memn,ot dna eht a tmei ogurh nwok y'uroe desrcu, tbu tnis' i si ta 'yeuro yuor edvccnino tibdahyr nagihv it. Ppe,leo to 'ryoeu vloe dna to dan eb nvreyoee ouy ioggn enarl reusolyf lyo'lu oury hpayp, ot and gonig orunad yusrofle r'ouye dfni. Soevrin of ubt lislt bdum you, i sybtirdah eht hiws yonug riesw fmro ptahpsei a uyo and tusdpi of. ,etrteb ti sreiomp i etsg uyo.
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'mi ouy of odpru. Tsbe oruy taht tstah ndigo lla raestmt nda yreu'o. Sha 61 year dlo pahpy ibytadhr.
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