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...
Uiqt itd'nd i'olleysr'.
Nda erew aysd raeft fi redif tngiist there fylnail ot ouy after eowtr eflryous ohcsoe ouy eerht ngogi h—rethesit wdoegrnni ayds weavel—e gto.
Uoy elosns siwh hatt omes colud tleubifua i in heetr i saw ltle. Eedend neiersuv hpu,s hpanpse nvtiheyger nwke eth htat a resoan ahtt we a or rfo.
Tath nto do to yuo iongg to 'mi.
Kifcgnu oetesmsmi lecru hte reisevnu utjs si.
Weirvnite htat ntxe hte uoy dan hda dya?.
Ojb td'ind oyu eth tge.
Ubt ts'hta yako.
You a oentarh deeroff abceseu tinoospi job. Ti ouy otok.
Neagram arpts esals wno a 'eyruo.
Epej tasw'n hoowsem ngitteg ddei teh uoatb eenv a week eht refid, edn of dna eth taht oot ao,csh aterf bsucaee.
Yes. Epeh.
Kown i.
Ubt 'tond cpain. A won we avhe ltpio adhon. Si rryo ,edr 'sehs rhe shse' uosr anem adn.
A ehdgnca ilwhe teltre so you oncdedsire nitwhi vnreihtyeg bletsa wesek, poecul ingitrw hsit fo llcsabyai.
Ceagdhn rkwo.
Edcnhag acr hte.
Nheagdc lfie.
Hethrwe uoy sdia to kedrwo ddti'n hygeievtnr uyo ownk watn out.
Lgda im' tath idsa uoy.
Neihretyvg kwro out acebsue dtid'n no,.
To andwte you iomhtnseg eesl konw but.
Uropd olfyesru? of ear uyo.
Aeyh.
I ma llucatay.
Ton ddnleah i cuaeseb efyrtlcep vengirthye. Tddi'n i.
Dgnra fo vyarleb rolly'sei' dna ni madecrh uot ecsoh i soem iicancetm ton mlyefs bsaeceu emntom. Mnomet tath gte i d'nidt. Tkaen me ttha mfro wsa aayw hioecc.
I rrwdataef ot ahwt adepenhp but soceho otg.
Up tgo bcka i.
Rtohe ookt i eth ojb.
A lnedear new ertso i.
Agmrnae i a mbceae.
Eth defurgi rca i tou siioanttu.
Abet rof nogig ddedcie osluebta i a kayl,nfr tkpe of to hsti uenj hielw teh out nhew, us.
Ewhn s:ka you os.
Ocseho fro ?noec you fyrlouse idd.
Nkthi si esawnr i het sey.
Oyu wya tghohut ustj tno ni the uodwl it napeph.
Ceohos rlli'ysoe' at dnegin hte etg ot t'nidd i.
Nbnineggi cseoh i hte ahtt it efatr meac.
If pazilgoigon ofr uyo ptoepds i negib sloa dseka retdi.
No.
Rsory 'im.
Oen tath no 'im isltl wniorgk.
Nsouhxieta ti's a eetisomms lmrao leik glaiifn i tlils etrat. Kinht aaewk kpee tmsomeesi be ulsdoh bael yast krow od i ,roem lstli h,edarr ot ngoig i eor,nlg.
Btu dernik it ot ot nygitr su aoutb 'mi be.
Nteh eskd:a ouy.
As sgvunrivi hte ddi yuo hgtin v?iilng eerbmrem sit'n tath seam.
Ot sniagtrt lanfyil i ihntk i'm.
Apyph e'vi em sutj gihnts hyet akem secaube node.
Ngeo ot ei'v pried. 'iev to moevis geon. Abueecs ybu fsymle itllet 'ive gshnti elims tel hyet em amke diirocluus. 'mi evah i leyunigen tuabo npals ecidext. Iarvrly etnh ivsit a we gigon onmitahl enxt idkn rfo rneops gfimnli lnytrruce sdininrocge fiylgn lanmtoer ot of nwo gmea mi' the mharc ahtst' to are tylnpraaep dan to uceesba ohceky st,naoocil dheaet.
Oyu stlli umoatn ew dna nlnoaebeusra nesha nad boerfe an se,y alyi ,aks oelv.
Higtsn hengca nodt' oems.
Yuo brigns enitqous eno chihw tmos to the ntoimtarp het ldleac em.
Rtigwn?i yuo ear lslti.
Sey.
Si ecomdailctp too ttah srnwea.
I trnwtei as 'tevanh hwsi i i as dha cumh. Eenb darh ethrtscse nbee vhea rigiwnt ewher ehtre sah. For sertios ehniundfis era iupdts tsiting giiwtan heert na sitll odnrau me of mbenur lbtalsyeuo.
Lvaee dnt'id ubt the irtoses.
Idd terehni i.
I earcte sllit. Hetm fslyem of isnedi upt tcaerchsra idfn i llits dan pcesei. Od neitsogmh ni i hatt tiwh ssceen n'wot temh oenal em ym hdae arpepa illst elvae lniut vhea i.
A wirtre lilts 'mi.
Tisll mi' ouy.
Ivhyetnerg ot tinhk hte i eht orewt lelttiamuy dan oyu anetnredhu ontuseiq wasern htat's.
Idae on yuo aws ot at phaenp hwit erwe instgti awht 2 kowr on autbo njue. Saw yuo ongtisemh kolo ot but ouy ingog deende wkno c,naegh athw wnke tidd'n ot acengh ielk.
R,ealt istll mtnsoh otw tnex ahwt i ownk t'nod ppseahn.
Utb wn?o grtih.
M'i erhe.
Nwe hmgtsenio im' lidginub.
Htigns im' ot oklo nndiigf to arowdrf.
Reyeml 'mi edintas fo tryign evli svrevui to.
And ,yhae yrlahe.
Im' produ su fo.
Elvo,.
Heyral.
P. S. Di,d ni yorva ,actf eht the lamc ealneutvyl donw fkuc. Uoy tahkn oercncn ryuo ofr.
P. P. S. Hawt ilek ot keews heva aide fo xnte lkoo no rae lur,eosisy coelup the figncku you auotb. Yrros vacneda in. ️❤.
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