A letter from January 24th, 2020

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, This is gonna be either short or long. When you receive this you will be in senior year of college and hopefully this comes as a surprise. If you do make it to senior year of whatever college, I'm proud of you. I'm so so so proud of you. I don't know what you will look like or what you will have done but I hope it's everything that you and I could be proud of. Have you made new friends? Do you still keep in contact with Mawi, Mercy, Mary, Rose, Judith, Shirley Rosely, etc.? Or are you kicking yourself because you haven't and you feel guilty? Currently, I'm a junior in high school and tomorrow I'm supposed to volunteer for Mrs. Berghoff, one of our favorite teachers. What's happening in the world now? Are you happy? Do you have kids? Have you found a boyfriend? Anything? I'm excited for whatever you experienced. Please don't waste time thinking. Go tell mom and dad you love them. Go tell U and Sang you love them. Be spontaneous, be happy. Please be happy. Whatever you do, please be happy. Time is precious and so are you. Don't hold onto the what-ifs because they didn't happen. Be happy with what you have and just be you.

Epilogue

about 7 hours later

Hi 17 year old me,

Let's start with the good things first. NO, I'M NOT A MOM. WHY WOULD YOU THINK YOU'D BE A...

Loam nogyu ?mom. A!yy no a crkat m'i ermktnagi 4 nda gmrioanj olgcee!l im' enriso ni shtnom ni ni ot aaedrtgu. Of pinistrnehs otl onde otu igd ttsea and deamang eievrsedsp of epde a to 'eiv a lyesfm. I uogthh ti vsdeivur enev ogt 'odnt ol)l o(uy codiv x2 eyt nkow i. Lilts 'im mra,y ierso and hiwt th,uidj cmy,er dsenirf. . . To thiw esolc aistntd utgthho eons be the uyd'o ovrrefe oyu utb. Ofdun fdrein be taht nwe oyu errpdiuss a ul'loy in opbehe. I old het that, dgoo rdea si adn nda lyafiln to oh, dne stginh wnet me, !nyc herwe. .
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Rehte ni vhatne' to syaer dektla wto eht rigsl i. Vnere yerinfbd,o nad haev i i eahv a 'ntod. Ogdo )gt!ihn hi(ts is a.
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Adn. . . Sith rtespneid twn'o ndoura mite iaang! utb veebile ti, adn is you pmrut edar s'eh weors my lgir,. Ubt eb obatu wderoir 'im akyo enuiyglne hinstg, lil'. .
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Royu ouy ktanh ti tub not'w i aecid,v akte for. I nca i be not dan ton cna ustj opnnsuseoat be ap,yph. Sorry i'm. Ont im' ypaph. Ta etmi atgcuh bda oyu a me. A ro,psgu i jtsu teafr u'yoer all be rvloti eon eth no ah!inircst iratcen nad adn o,h haye, morf gseein heat cta'n orelgn.
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Tth'as lla, b!ye.

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