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...
Lry'elos'i uiqt i'dtdn.
Otrwe adn ggion ethre atefr efdir eweavle— esth—thire fi rwee to gniewdrno etfar days uoy adsy tniisgt tgo oufrsyel tehre escooh lfnlyia yuo.
Ishw aiflubute emso saw lenoss tath erteh i etll i udolc oyu in. Aerons atth we a ahnpspe eht or eknw inyegtherv htta usp,h neruievs a fro ddeeen.
Ot ont oyu to ggoni ahtt mi' od.
Is sseimotme elcru eth jstu neesurvi figkucn.
Nad het ttah had entx nweevitir uoy ?yad.
Uyo eht jbo teg dtin'd.
Aoky tbu sh'att.
Edffero ootispni boj a eucsaeb ouy nhareot. Ktoo uoy it.
Now yeuor' sasel a tspar garmnea.
T'wnas ferat dna neev hte ,ferid igegntt taht aeuesbc hte oto dedi csah,o wemoosh ejpe het kewe oautb fo a nde.
Eys. Hepe.
Wkno i.
Pncia tdn'o utb. Danoh veah nwo we oilpt a. Is usor r,de se'hs ryro s'she enam erh dna.
Nihiwt gtrenvyihe keews, a ybaacills twnigir uoy tletre iesedncrod ilhwe satelb eplcuo fo dagnech shit os.
Rkow cehndga.
Teh gehacdn rca.
Ehdncga lefi.
Uyo uyo dtd'ni rntviehyeg nkwo hehtrew nwta disa to uot wekrdo.
Dlag ahtt m'i iasd oyu.
Uot orkw no, ebausce td'din trheeygnvi.
Btu getnsmhio edwnat ot esle you okwn.
Rea oudpr of rlueosfy? oyu.
Yeha.
I ma lacalytu.
I dlhaedn tno ecylptfer theevyrgin ecbeuas. I 'tndid.
Out gdrna soem csheo mcehard of efmsyl rveybla tniciemca ebsauec rslily''oe i ton adn mneotm ni. Tge ddni't i that mmeont. Saw cceioh nkate hatt away omrf em.
Heenpapd eocsoh to i ogt btu feadtrarw hatw.
Ackb i pu ogt.
Otok i job toerh the.
I anlerde a ewn setro.
A eaecbm i rgmanea.
Car i uot iutnsotai ergudfi eth.
I ew,nh neuj ot latuoseb while ogign isth pket orf of uto icdeedd ,yrfnkal atbe us a teh.
Newh os uyo s:ak.
Ddi folsyrue nceo? uoy ofr heocso.
Het khnti i naresw esy is.
Nphepa tohguht ni tjus it het ouy wya ldwou otn.
Teh leylo''sri tge at soecoh i ot dnitd' idgnne.
Htat i caem sheoc teh refat bieggninn ti.
I yuo iloznopigag lsoa oespdpt trdie orf fi ibgen ksade.
No.
Mi' rrsyo.
Hatt one on krwnogi slilt 'im.
Estmiomes a aglifin listl leik sanuitxeho oamlr teatr 'its i. Ayts nhitk awkea dhluso ea,rdhr i eb peek i ot lslit okrw igong r,nelog r,moe od bael siemmtsoe.
Aobtu ot ot but it su nedirk be im' rgtyni.
Enht edaks: yuo.
Hte as esam oyu idd tni's tnghi emebrmer inirgusvv lig?ivn atth.
Liylanf itkhn i 'mi ot ntrgaits.
Stju ethy ypaph deon ei'v em hgtsni ekma ubescae.
Neog ot ipdre vi'e. E'iv imsveo ot onge. Ettlil gstihn auebesc ve'i mkea elmysf urliisudoc me mlise uby ehty lte. Etcedxi vaeh pnals nnleguiye 'mi i btauo. To for a onw eagm h'tast to etppalyrna eiosidncnrg nthe gliinmf stvii etxn tnalmioh ew eth eetahd ear ocykhe ot yrlcruetn dkni esnrpo arrlviy fo i'm nda aoemrnlt rmhac sbecuea ynlfgi ggoni olcnto,sia.
E,ys adn dna na ew oyu voel ask, tnuoma nesha brenaoseunal frbeoe tslli ayil.
'odnt hcgean shnitg msoe.
Uoy rsbing het eht nsioquet lalcde chwih ot atnpmtoir me oen otms.
Uoy rae sltli itinwgr?.
Yse.
Si ccoidaletmp nsreaw oto htta.
Cuhm ntheva' sa i as i hda swhi i rwtneit. Sha teerh evah been trhcseset eneb rwigint adrh ehwre. Of nawgiti me litsl sutdip trhee buenrm adourn gtinsit na rae blysoaluet for srsteoi efdhinsniu.
Ubt eth i'dndt toierss evlae.
Ieernth i did.
I teerac stlil. Of dsieni illts ptu them and eisecp eymfsl i dinf casrhactre. I i nohgtimes iltsl emht nessec taht em lunit noela wt'no ym aedh avele in with do aarppe vhea.
Wirtre i'm a ilslt.
Tsill im' you.
Ahstt' the narwse nhuaerndet to thikn yuo i rtewo eth dan qteusion teihvygner yetlmltuai.
Hwit ta ujen oyu iade saw atbuo wath no on kwro npeaph eewr 2 sgittni ot. Uoy ,ceganh to saw nwek tmnhseiog nowk kloo utb ouy gngio ehnacg ahtw to ekli eddeen dndi't.
Hwta ondt' hsmtno tslli i two aphspne elt,ra wkno etxn.
Ubt ?nwo thrgi.
Ereh 'im.
Idnugbli ghntsoeim m'i nwe.
Oolk mi' dwarorf ot nidfngi htsngi ot.
I'm ievl eelmyr to taednsi fo gtrnyi suievvr.
Dna eahy, eyharl.
Su fo 'mi orudp.
E,ovl.
Hleary.
P. S. Wnod utlnelayve ni af,ct hte hte ufkc aorvy acml i,dd. Ccnrone ouy knaht yruo orf.
P. P. S. Rea fo okol taubo idea keli eu,irsylos skewe culope ouy vhae ufkcnig whta teh exnt no to. In nevdaca oryrs. ️❤.
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