Dear Harley,
It's June 2026.
You're sitting at work, your left ovary is trying to commit war crimes, you're thinking about quitting O'Reilly's after 3.5 years, and tomorrow you have an interview.
Right now everything feels uncertain.
Maybe you've quit.
Maybe you're still there.
Maybe the interview went great.
Maybe it didn't.
What I want to know isn't whether everything worked out.
I want to know if you're proud of yourself.
Did you choose yourself for once?
Did you stop apologizing for being tired?
Did you remember that surviving isn't the same thing as living?
And most importantly:
Are you still writing?
Love,
Harley
P.S. How's the pain now? Please tell me the ovary calmed down.
Epilogue
about 1 month later
Dear Harley,
It's August 2026.
I completely forgot you wrote this.
Which feels like a very us way for this to start.
I suppose we should go in order.
You...
Intd'd reo's'llyi utqi.
Esrh—thite to gto sady uyo uyo dasy gstntii hrtee fredi fatre weer esocho ereht goign rfate weort if nad ogdrwinen ianfyll lofysuer veelwa—e.
I uoy iwhs cdluo ereht esolns hatt swa esom laetubufi i letl in. H,sup htta tieregvynh inseuevr hte a aehnspp ro a ahtt nekw fro deedne naeosr ew.
Ot 'im ot ont do htat gniog oyu.
Is niuckgf urcle teh someismet neirseuv stju.
Dah txen d?ya ouy tweiivner hte and atth.
Egt you tnid'd hte bjo.
Atsht' okay tub.
Soinpiot hteanor bauesec ouy eorffde a job. It uoy otko.
Uoye'r agnmrea rsatp eslas a onw.
Oatub eth edid ,feidr ceasube and gentgti scoa,h peej fo ratef hte too ekew teh sawnt' nde eevn a htat omwoseh.
Esy. Pehe.
Wonk i.
Nicpa tub dn'ot. A litop we vhae dohan onw. Erh nad re,d soru enam royr is ssh'e h'ses.
Os ltseba ouplce hneveiygtr retelt ws,eke wlihe icosnededr triwngi calbsilay tshi a uyo ecgnahd fo itniwh.
Rkow gndache.
The hdcegan acr.
Gnhcdea iefl.
Ouy revihneytg hewtehr rdewko 'ndtdi wnok uot dasi ot you nwta.
Gdal siad ttah you i'm.
'intdd rhygneevti ,no ebcsaeu rwok tou.
To wkno seel dwenta mnotisgeh uyo ubt.
Syoeulr?f are fo odpur uoy.
Ayhe.
I aatullyc am.
Auebecs otn edhdnla ivgyehrnte lceyeftrp i. I 'ditdn.
Ylemsf bvelray ehsoc uto fo i soem ni ctenimcai yiloels'r' erdmahc nmeotm abeuecs rangd nto dan. Gte ttha i 'dtind motemn. Cecohi ormf yawa etnak was me thta.
To got i hneapepd htwa wedrartfa seohco tub.
Up ogt cakb i.
Boj hte otko etohr i.
Leadner estro i a wen.
I a mnarega eebmac.
Cra dgreuif i eht iusntitoa uto.
Cdiedde a oggni ln,akyrf tuo i su ejnu to we,hn eht kpet tlaeubos orf lhwei aebt tsih fo.
You k:sa os enhw.
Uoy ofr idd oehcso en?oc esrulyof.
Si tnhki the ranswe sye i.
Ont loudw just oyu hneapp ti ttouhhg awy in teh.
At i 'dndit to eht ll'r'iyoes ohsoce ndngie tge.
I gngeinnbi sheco eafrt teh hatt cema it.
Irdte i gbnie kades uyo fro if lsao dtpeosp ognioplzgai.
No.
Rsryo m'i.
Taht neo tisll 'mi gnirkwo on.
Nfgaiil a hateisnuox keli ormla mistsemeo ratet i'st i tslli. Stay eekp adhr,er khtin rkow be enl,rgo od i waeak to illts i ro,em odlhus abel ogngi eimosemts.
Kdienr to but i'm tboua it su ot eb ytgrni.
Yuo thne ke:ads.
Sa vurisngvi eth oyu ddi atth gihtn rmerebem ig?nliv smea tsni'.
I lafyiln 'im to tsgrinat itnhk.
Sntihg keam ev'i sujt me ndeo secabeu yteh phapy.
Ive' ngeo to riped. Iomevs gone to iev'. Esmli sirduioucl feysml em ttilel htey 'ive cesebua ihntsg emka elt ybu. Panls i 'im aehv batuo liyugnnee dexicte. A aytnalrppe dan onaoi,lsct armch tivis alhotnmi oeamrtnl rae oyhcke rtcyulern tenh ialrvry eosnpr going xnet to of eaecsub heatde sttah' teh ndik ew ingfmli ecniigondsr own gmae yiglnf m'i to ot ofr.
Love hsnae iyal ereofb you ew ,ask tilsl toamun ye,s an buleanosenar nad nda.
Hgcaen smeo gnstih 'odtn.
Neo somt hwihc hte uyo eht rbgsni lacled to ptnioratm isnetuqo em.
T?gnriwi still ouy rea.
Sye.
Si ttah rsawen cmadlopiect too.
I itnrwte neth'av sa sa swih hucm dah i i. Nbee sah dahr avhe rcheesstt treeh wirgtin ewhre eben. Hinfsidenu staeolyubl nuebrm em tdiups na rfo tlsil winiagt tsntgii of drnuao erthe era rotiess.
The but avlee 'idntd eirtsso.
Reithen i did.
I sltli eetrca. I adn fo itsll eyfslm dneisi dfin escpei tmhe utp schctrraae. Em scnees itnhmogse aeelv htiw eppraa oalne i my tmhe in otn'w atth utiln eavh lilts i edah do.
Tirewr tlils im' a.
Yuo lltsi mi'.
You nad ktnhi teh hatts' raneudhent eransw ot rtewo ayuitlteml neqotius the yntihrvege i.
Wsa twah erew iaed otbua no no aenhpp thwi to 2 uyo rkow at eunj sittngi. Tin'dd ot ot eghnac ogngi olko ubt hoiegstnm ouy elik nedeed you hatw onwk wken egn,cah aws.
,alter sphnpea i sltli otn'd hnsmot wto wkon tnxe ahwt.
Own? hitgr utb.
Reeh i'm.
Ihgmetsno new i'm bguinidl.
M'i dnfngii oklo histgn ot to rwrafdo.
Of im' ignyrt sriuvev to yrelem taednis levi.
Nad yaehrl ahe,y.
'im su podur fo.
Veo,l.
Elryah.
P. S. Down ni ,did fkcu rvaoy lcma eht aeelytnuvl hte tacf,. Orf oryu nocencr oyu kthna.
P. P. S. What soeyru,isl the lkei tnxe ekwes haev era ouy to no kolo of abtou ncgfiuk eiad copelu. Rrsyo cneadav ni. ️❤.
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