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...
Ddtni' y'lr'losie utqi.
Dan illnayf ifred to ignog sylfuero otg itreh—hset sady fi treeh wiregonnd erfat uoy yasd ttsingi eewr tearf you tower ocsheo heter —eelwvae.
Ueflbtuia letl three i semo hwis was eolnss ni udocl hatt i you. Urvisnee eth for rtevhigeyn ro ,uphs ew a psehanp atth htat saroen eeednd a wenk.
Mi' tno that to od igogn you ot.
Is kuficng eht rulec jstu rvneeuis smometies.
Xetn nad ouy ttha ahd yd?a het wiveeitnr.
Ndtid' egt obj yuo eht.
Kyao shtat' tbu.
A yuo rtnaeoh ioptsoni rdefoef cbeesau obj. Yuo otko ti.
O'ryue arspt a now gnmeara slsea.
Ifr,ed oto caeesbu het dne a aetfr dide of nad ewek an'wst otuba tnggiet jepe hwoeoms even hte ,hacos ahtt the.
Yes. Hpee.
Nkwo i.
But dto'n ncapi. Tlpoi dnoha won evha ew a. Neam si nda usor eh'ss royr reh shes' re,d.
Of etertl eediroscdn baasilylc you anhgedc isht tbslae iritwgn poeluc iitnwh eksew, os rhvgnyetei a ehlwi.
Hgdenca krow.
Arc hte ghneadc.
Gchndae lief.
Anwt uoy yuo kdorwe adis uot rhhetwe 'dtind gyrevtheni to wnko.
Mi' uoy ttah lgda dasi.
Tou hrgevnetiy work acbeseu on, tnid'd.
Kwno esle oyu tbu atnwde mhnsiotge to.
?eoyuflsr you era podur of.
Haye.
Am atuclyal i.
Otn ceebsua i enddlha vrgneeiyht eeplfcyrt. D'itnd i.
Drang asucbee i adn achrdem eohsc 'or'ylilse ni imeatcicn of etmomn ton aeylvbr out smylfe oems. I intd'd atth gte tomemn. Nktea was ceochi em mfor waay ttha.
Tbu eppedahn i hawt to tgo taredafwr eshoco.
Pu tog bcka i.
I teh toko trheo boj.
A aelrned wne i sreto.
Cmabee a i greanam.
Ufdregi eht out nsutiioat i rca.
The a to of out sith wnh,e lotsbuae jneu su i ofr lewih gnigo eabt lfrnay,k epkt edceddi.
Os :ask yuo hwne.
Rlyeuosf idd fro eoc?n hosceo oyu.
Wesrna sye si nhkit i hte.
Ohthgtu uoy teh epnhap ywa tujs not ni ti doluw.
Eth ta d'tdin hcseoo to e'sloyr'il teg diengn i.
Het efatr ti acem that einninggb csoeh i.
Laso ofr niegb kaesd giaopgnilzo fi i ouy ppoetsd drite.
No.
Roysr i'm.
'im on lstli atth iwrgnko neo.
I'st stimesmeo a nalgfii ramol ttera sehuinoaxt isltl klei i. Epek to rwko i emor, i bael hudsol od yats ongig hnkit herr,ad tmssoemie litsl g,elonr ewaak be.
Ubt edkrni ot ot gyritn be us tboau it im'.
Hnte oyu :kased.
Bemerrem atht asme as ithng vln?gii teh is'nt ouy ddi iiguvrvns.
Sritgtna i ot khitn lfiynal m'i.
Basuece stuj etyh node keam hnsgit e'vi phypa me.
Iprde ot 'evi gnoe. Noeg siovme to ev'i. Lsiruudoci ythe scbeaeu tle elsyfm uby htngsi me mleis ekma 'eiv ielttl. I nlsap egenluyni atbuo avhe edicxte 'mi. Fo fro 'mi ylriarv tiivs lmnigif hte 'hastt a exnt hmcra hyckeo gecnindosri gigno hten to aeebsuc kind and ew ait,osnlco teadhe gnliyf nltrucyer own snrpoe ot to ilmtohan rae eamg traenlmo petaprlayn.
Nautmo llsti dan we na bfeeor evol you ,ask saneh ys,e neborlaunase adn liay.
Tdon' achneg osem sithgn.
The singbr eno me ottampnri whhic eht to mtso eoqinstu laelcd you.
Aer ouy intr?iwg listl.
Esy.
Earnws is too aeolmdcipct htat.
Sa twernti i tenhv'a i dha wish as umch i. Erehw arhd nwigtri neeb has htree ehsestctr neeb eavh. Otesris agtiiwn olbaetyslu itsngit utisdp rae lsitl for ihnnsueidf of em eurbmn odanru tehre na.
Tbu srsteio din'td teh evela.
I hienrte idd.
Ltsli i cteare. Mhte ptu snidei icseep i lmfyes fdin of sltli dan ehscaarcrt. Nitul eppara lavee tiwh meth i ehva nt'wo i do me anole thta cesnes my esgmtohin ni dahe sitll.
I'm tilsl wirert a.
Listl uyo m'i.
Uyo ieuqntos auhdennrte t'aths to tkhin hte and het hrgneetyvi otwre ttiyllmuae erasnw i.
On ouy ot whta whti on at wsa rkow nephap iitngst rwee enju outab 2 iead. To niggo nitd'd ndedee to wath yuo hnegca lkoo leik henag,c swa btu otsinhegm know wenk you.
Litls nt'od ntomhs phesnap i nkow le,rta wto twha xtne.
Rihgt o?wn utb.
Im' ehre.
Nemihgsot im' lbgnduii wen.
Darorwf nfidgni nitsgh to ot loko mi'.
To ynirtg eelmyr svruevi i'm fo leiv dneasti.
Nad erlyah y,aeh.
Of updro im' us.
Lv,oe.
Larehy.
P. S. ,tafc nyatleulev i,dd het ni yoavr owdn eht fcku almc. Ryou you ncorecn rof ktnha.
P. P. S. No eht otabu loko ehva rae hwta tenx ot oluepc sweek eadi kile ysier,ouls of kfguicn oyu. Rrsoy canedav in. ️❤.
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