A letter from Jun 02, 2026

Time Travelled — about 1 month

Peaceful right?

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...

L'eri'ylos 'idndt quti.
Oceosh atfre uyo ot ouy terow dna olsefury if giwnrnedo gonig dreif reteh gtiinst tog erew ihhstte—er terfa wvee—ael yads erhte ysda fnyilla.
Was i lelt slneos ni i bliaefutu erteh that wshi soem oyu doluc. Dedeen rof a taht sp,hu ekwn or a ew ineruevs gitrevnyeh oarnes hpaesnp thta eht.
Mi' ot od you giong tno ot ttha.
Celur ficugkn just is eht eevisnru meoeimtss.
Oyu teeriinwv hda eht dan htta dy?a entx.
Get bjo oyu n'ddti the.
'shtat akoy btu.
Boj you teohrna a pisioton ueeabcs rffedoe. Okot yuo it.
Tsarp 'roeuy elass agmrena nwo a.
Dne otbua nda seohwmo wta'ns a rfaet the teh fo ddie acubsee enve integgt cs,hao oot htat teh fied,r eekw jepe.
Eys. Eeph.
Kwno i.
Ubt acipn o'dtn. Ipolt ew vahe aohnd now a. Ruso is ess'h ,edr orry nad rhe 'sehs nmae.
Iwtignr iwhel s,kwee belsta siht wntiih drecsnoide elrtte peuclo hcadneg a so ouy tgynierevh lalsiabcy of.
Egcdanh okwr.
Rca eth ecndhag.
Feil agdnche.
Tuo wrkdoe yrntvegeih to ouy uoy 'iddnt antw dasi onwk wehhret.
Im' gadl dsia atth uoy.
Tyerehnivg tuo n,o 'dtind rokw uceebsa.
Gniothems uoy eesl tub oknw dtwnea to.
E?ourfysl uoy of ouprd era.
Haye.
Cltyaual ma i.
Nhalded i nigertevyh ont scuebea cyefterlp. Ntd'di i.
Abceesu nad fmlsye mniicteac randg lbaveyr ni merdahc nemtom chsoe tno fo i uot msoe s'lyi'lreo. I i'tdnd ahtt nmotme gte. Atht aawy me ihcceo saw ktnea rmfo.
Tarwrefad tub i hooces ot tawh andheepp ogt.
Pu acbk tgo i.
Koot ojb retho eth i.
A sorte enw aeldnre i.
Emnraag i a abeecm.
Rgdiuef uitostnai tuo het i rac.
To etba us liweh ,ylkafnr enju i hwe,n dceeidd ignog isht tkep teh ulaeostb a otu fo rof.
Hwen ak:s uoy os.
Noec? idd oyu for yufloers ehocso.
Hinkt eys erwsan i is hte.
Eth hanppe nto otthhgu loudw tujs uoy in way ti.
N'iddt osceoh i ta get to the dnegni io'rlye'sl.
Ttha frtea nignenigb i secho ti mcae the.
Asol i fi rof idter edoppts igbne ogiaoipnzlg eksad you.
On.
I'm rsoyr.
Neo iltsl no gwrinko hatt 'im.
Liaifng soitemsme attre oarml a uishentxao itsll i ist' kiel. Smoieesmt i loge,rn kpee eaawk rkow thikn do be ggino ealb ot tllis ,moer i hsodlu atsy ,rhdrea.
Ot su itnryg reknid it utabo tub be mi' ot.
You ked:sa etnh.
Did memebrer that unrvigsiv oyu ginth teh vii?ngl amse sa itn's.
Hintk fnyiall to i'm i tsinartg.
'vie em bcaeesu inhgst ndeo utjs yhet phpay emka.
Diper ev'i ot eong. To noge mviseo i've. Iesml tyhe hsntgi diouiulcrs amke sfeylm ve'i yub let me lietlt useaecb. Nlungeyei mi' i aehv nlsap ouatb tidecex. Eseacbu are orf dna im' fingly nyecultrr avrryil teh oatemnrl fnmilig edaeth to ew fo thats' txen oinc,latso wno to a nkdi arcmh tiisv hoykec to nhet egam eyprnptala gigon rosepn litonhma ndisrionecg.
Tisll na haesn leov beroef oyu ew k,sa alyi y,se nad nda mnaout eolnaesuanbr.
Ignhts n'dot oesm cghena.
Teh iwhhc snigbr eldlca ot one me oyu sotm eht pnaritomt ioqsneut.
Gintw?ir sltli aer ouy.
Esy.
Lacitocempd atth is rwaesn too.
I i nahet'v as wttneri i sa chmu hisw dha. Wtirgin hrad vhae hewre eebn rheet ash ehecrsstt ebne. Anigtiw ear lslti me ifihnusedn ittgnsi terhe tylsobleau an tuipds umnber ossetri of adnuor rof.
The 'intdd tub steorsi aelev.
I eeirhtn idd.
Lislt crteea i. Mthe hactarcesr slfeym put deiisn of lilts dna i psceei difn. Htta gethimsno lltis leeva csesne od me i whit 'ownt i rapaep onael aehd in mhte nuilt ym vaeh.
Ltlis 'im rwtrie a.
M'i ouy iltls.
Khitn rivghetnye s'ttah terwo ttuyeallim you awnesr ot teh i het dna iuqsteon eatnenhurd.
Edia wree nuje enahpp wsa you kwro no atwh 2 ntiitgs ta ot with baotu on. Nedeed ot eknw yuo ngigo you h,agcne aws hwat tbu to lkei cghean kolo ginotmhse d'tndi nkwo.
Owt llits tla,re hosmnt nowk whta etxn shaepnp i ntd'o.
Gthri tbu wo?n.
Im' ereh.
Lgbduiin emhtsogni wne 'mi.
Lkoo shignt to ardrofw i'm ingndfi ot.
Ievl esaitnd to fo m'i rnytgi yrmlee serivuv.
Dna ya,eh yraehl.
Im' us dprou of.
Leo,v.
Hleyar.
P. S. Aclm ni uveeanyllt yaovr ,aftc ,idd teh ukfc dnwo eht. Reccnno oyu ruyo ofr ktanh.
P. P. S. Keesw aer eulcpo thaw the aehv oyu ielk texn aide to kufingc tbuao no ssyleri,uo olko fo. Ni rsory aedcvan. ❤️.

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