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...
I'dtdn l''slyiero tiqu.
Nyalfli dsay orelufsy terhe if eewr tower sgiittn uyo etrhe aterf got ieshttrhe— wee—lave edfri to nad you dsay choose featr wngiodrne iggon.
Llte atth hwsi meos ni i fbueautli i was eslnso oulcd herte uoy. We atht a a hergetnyiv or ednede rfo eth rineseuv rsoena ewnk pahnspe ,psuh htat.
To atht od 'im uoy tno ot inogg.
Kuficgn hte lrceu misseteom is jtsu rveeunsi.
Tenx het yuo dan that wernetiiv ya?d dha.
Get ouy het ndt'di obj.
'hsatt ubt ayko.
Enaorht a obj ouy bsaceue noisopti ofdrfee. Otok you ti.
Alsse onw mgnraea aprst uorey' a.
Eht ta'nws a of eepj nvee weke oot tgenigt uaobt eth hco,as eddi edn oeohsmw eeauscb dfer,i teh nad fatre ahtt.
Esy. Hpee.
Konw i.
Tbu cainp dto'n. Vahe dhnoa nwo a ew lpoti. Orus naem eshs' ed,r hs'es dan si reh royr.
A os ceulop sacyiabll btsael tlrete nadchge ygreehvnit wtgriin tniiwh of iths skewe, liwhe coineeddsr uyo.
Wokr dcahnge.
Gehncda acr eht.
Aecdgnh lief.
Oyu out onkw ot uoy yeinrvthge ntwa rdoekw rethhwe idtn'd dais.
Uoy ldag atth sadi i'm.
Out ddnit' tvgiyenhre on, wrok uceesab.
Ubt to himnoegst eesl you kwno twneda.
O?usrflye fo rae rdopu uyo.
Eahy.
Aalutycl am i.
I yfpetrcle heldand cbaeesu ton vhgeriynet. D'tind i.
Iatccemni ebuesca i nda mnemot lysel'ori' lrvyaeb not in eoshc fo herdmca rangd tou mylesf eoms. I id'ntd that tnmeom etg. Hoccei eatkn aayw htta saw romf em.
To tgo earrdwfat eephdpna i but osoehc awht.
Pu i kcba otg.
Ojb ootk het retho i.
I teros erdlaen a ewn.
A aragnme i eabcem.
Het iauottsin i tou rac difguer.
Su a beat deidedc oggin of asltobeu unje wlhei i to ak,lfyrn pekt otu hwn,e fro hte thsi.
So ouy :aks whne.
Eco?n uyfrloes uyo echsoo did rof.
Nkhit hte i yse si saernw.
In it hte just otghuht neaphp otn wldou ywa uyo.
Ngined gte 'yli'lores ndtid' ceshoo ot eht i ta.
It mcae i faetr egniingnb eth cshoe ttha.
Easdk ertid dsotepp uoy ngibe if i npgogzliaio oals fro.
No.
Rrsoy 'mi.
Wrgkoni no atht 'im one llsit.
Tssmeemoi i tslli treat a laginfi lkei moral huneiatosx 'tsi. Rhr,ead tyas keep do lslti i niogg genr,lo to ekaaw rkwo i dulhso ,eorm aleb be tnhki ssommtiee.
Ot gytnri im' ot but it be us aubot drnkie.
Ethn you e:sdak.
As emmeebrr het ig?linv did hatt snit' vvsniruig smae tighn uoy.
Ot sairgttn m'i tnikh fniylla i.
Tjsu payhp ie'v aebceus meak onde inhtgs yeth me.
E'vi gnoe pdrei to. Vi'e eong ot eimvos. Msyelf liesm etl amek thye gsnhit iev' uusioricdl eusbaec em ettlil ybu. Ctxeedi mi' i salnp bouta evha uelyninge. Agem nxet kdni riylavr nptaerylap fnmgiil vtiis gngio ycheko onrltmea ofr era 'mi nerpos teh we crahm a of nencioigsdr cueebas taoslnco,i tenh gnifly to wno aeetdh ha'stt to nyercultr dna ot hlnmoita.
Love and nad hsnea ew eys, you reaabnosnuel boeerf ska, lslti an uotmna ilay.
Meso ngcaeh gstinh 'odnt.
Tniqseuo noe rtiptnoam ihchw uyo ngsbir eht ot the mots em ealldc.
G?riwnit ear tilsl uoy.
Sye.
Htat rsnwea dcitepmcola si oto.
As i i as chum iswh i wntrtie adh enva'th. Nbee dhar eerht tctserehs hvae ahs girwtni ewreh nebe. Ianiwtg em sefniuinhd eerth onudar lsitl byutesaoll fo seisrot orf eunbmr rea suidtp an stnitgi.
Dnitd' aevel soserti eth btu.
Ddi i irhnete.
Tracee i tllis. Fo tpu i dna lilts mhet eecips idfn rccaatrehs edsiin melsyf. Nolae ym necsse em ithw od hgtnoiesm paepra aveh 'nwot ltniu in i lvaee ehda tilsl hmet atht i.
Mi' tlisl iwterr a.
Yuo tllis im'.
To hte tikhn itosnuqe nad dhnterenua i uteliyaltm eth you rvgenhytie s'tath ewrto searwn.
Uoatb 2 rokw at aedi ithw yuo ittgsin was athw on npahpe to erew on june. Saw needed gmtoinshe uoy oolk yuo wken to ngcahe tub to owkn twha n'tidd lkie nhcega, gogin.
Hpspnae tslli trela, tnomhs i to'dn wokn otw txne twah.
Tbu hgtri wo?n.
M'i ehre.
Ulidngib nghsmoite im' new.
To sintgh okol arfrwod m'i idnnigf ot.
Iygrtn diesnat svrueiv ot ivle fo mi' reylem.
Dan a,yeh eyalrh.
Us fo rodup 'mi.
,oevl.
Leyahr.
P. S. Ufck in leaunytvel wndo d,di hte teh oryav clma fc,at. Conenrc oyu yuro tnkha rof.
P. P. S. Atwh to otbua eskwe yuo teh on ilek daie look ear gucnikf i,esryluso ehav fo oepcul etnx. Orsry dnaeavc in. ️❤.
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