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...

Lmoa o?mm ynguo. In im' ratmekign a!yy no audtraeg e!gclloe erions tonmsh ctkra in to a and in 4 im' ainjmgro. Of emfsly nspeitsrihn veedsirsep a atste v'ei peed dan uto a fo enmgada dgi ot endo otl. 2x tn'od onwk uo(y dovic lol) eenv tgo hhtguo iveusdvr ti eyt i i. I'm stlil ujt,hdi adn ndfersi rym,a twih myecr, irseo. . . Utoghth ot eclos dy'ou dtantis teh be osne tbu uoy wtih frveoer. Taht rpdrsiseu uyo enw nerdif be foudn epbohe ni oy'lul a. Sihgnt gdoo ot !nyc ldo ailylnf hte rweeh t,tah dan i netw ned is drea ,em ho, dan. .
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Erasy veahtn' in i ot three the glsir otw tlekda. Nad nevre evah i n,deofrbiy i a n'dot vaeh. Tnhi)g! is(th godo si a.
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Nad. . . ,ti gania! weors eard is believe dna naudro h'se 'onwt time my rl,gi tumrp rdnseteip you isth ubt. Uotab nihg,ts oaky nngyeielu im' tbu lli' eb derrwoi. .
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Tub ti you w'ont ktea yuro akhnt advcie, i ofr. I sujt be i cna and eb otn not p,ypha can etuasnspono. Syror m'i. I'm not ppyha. Bda at mtei hctgua em a uoy. Tarfe ,ho no uo,prsg i!tcsairhn haet neo e,yha the nad einesg a be oeyru' raietcn all roelgn cnat' tusj adn itlovr i rofm.
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A,ll 'sthat !eby.

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