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...

Iyl'sloer' tndd'i utqi.
Gto owetr ot tngisti eyofsulr adn fnlayil ysad e—aveelw eewr t—reetihhs iedfr gigno oyu csoheo nowdengir tfaer erteh yuo asyd if aeftr hrete.
Oucdl htta ehrte swa ouy oesm i llte ni sslnoe i swhi letfibauu. Iesrveun orf a eshpanp ro hnteryveig hu,sp ew tath ekwn htta a denede aornes het.
Ot im' od ot ttah ignog you otn.
Eeimtssmo si eht urlec gkucnfi stju evisuner.
Iintervew uoy htta ady? had txen and teh.
Job egt eht tdndi' yuo.
Tub htas't akyo.
Ahreotn oyu jbo dffoere eecbusa ptioinso a. Ookt it ouy.
Tsapr y'erou ssela wno areganm a.
Epej of oot het caesbue ehoowsm evne ,ifred and a ettingg aetrf ac,soh het that t'snaw obaut ewek nde hte ided.
Eys. Hepe.
Wokn i.
Tub o'dnt capni. Ahndo ew tloip vahe nwo a. Her 'ehss is rsuo yorr dre, ses'h nda mnea.
Aletsb oyu salcbliay dorsceinde so hcaendg of elwih k,eews a ihtniw heneygitrv griiwtn isth lreett upeloc.
Work chdgaen.
Teh enhacdg rca.
Leif nedchga.
Out uoy nwat asid knwo eretwhh woekrd ot nehregtivy you ddti'n.
Gald iads uyo i'm atht.
Reynethivg cubease otu ,no idtn'd krwo.
But to oteinshmg nokw yuo aednwt sele.
Fo u?flryoes pourd ear ouy.
Aehy.
Ma i ucatllya.
Ehaddnl euaebsc i eetlfcyrp rvyetehing otn. 'idtdn i.
Blayvre ton nardg tuo cheso i arechmd fo usebeca iictemcna tnomem efysml nad ysl'ro'iel omes in. Nteomm din'dt htta gte i. Aws thta hiocec enatk em rmfo aawy.
Ahtw ndpaeeph ot tbu fraewrtad hoceos tog i.
I bcak up ogt.
Jbo okot i hte orhet.
Nwe ortse a i raldene.
I a eamebc gemaran.
Eht car egfduir nsuitotai out i.
Eidedcd ofr hte fo june us tosealbu ,wnhe ot anflkyr, a i etab ngoig hsti weilh ptek otu.
Hwen so yuo ks:a.
Uyo youlrfse ?nceo idd rfo scheoo.
Het i ikhnt eys is nwasre.
Ouy utghtoh in ton teh uwold utjs ppehan wya it.
I idtnd' ot llyre'ois' cehsoo etg teh edgnni ta.
Benigingn tfrea it acem hsoce the atht i.
Azignilpgoo skeda uoy tdrie bineg fi i orf spetpod olas.
No.
I'm syror.
Eno igkwnor on tlisl im' ttha.
Llsti ratte sit' rmoal sahneouxti leki semtimose a i aliigfn. Still ewaak elba asty gogni seiemstom ousdlh eb hdarer, kowr tinkh to i ,orem i ,orenlg eekp do.
Ot be about tbu mi' dnekir su it tgynri to.
Ethn uyo d:saek.
Ahtt rmeeremb idd uoy stn'i vuvsrniig eht vlingi? asem ghitn as.
I airttgns im' ot hnikt lflyani.
Uacbese ekma me 'vie sgtihn tsuj done pypah ehyt.
Ot dpeir 'vei eong. Ngeo to ie'v oeismv. Ourusicldi kmae sflyme nithgs me etl tltlei 'evi ybu eeacusb ielms ehty. Outba lpasn lnniygeue i aevh m'i ecxited. Ognniecrdis kyoech inkd s'taht the ot era tehead enht figilmn fro gingo sacbeeu oahlntim ilctsaono, mage a now of ew tvsii nfgiyl ot rhcma cruyntrel lenrappyat iarrylv xent mtoenrla eonrps 'mi dan ot.
We illst rasnlnobueae yes, elov ialy nahes eoberf omntua uoy and and k,as na.
Eosm nisthg ndt'o gheacn.
Sbring omst teh iwhhc uetosinq to acleld noe the ouy niprattmo em.
Oyu nigt?wir era tlils.
Sye.
Htat nweasr oto is camecoldtip.
Irettnw naetvh' i i sa i had sa umch hiws. Ritwgni have reeth wrhee eben rcetstshe sah eebn rahd. Nidsniefhu are tgintis em ltsli na rof fo etrhe tupisd mnrube rtiseos rdnuoa uselotlaby natgiiw.
Veale eht otsersi didnt' ubt.
Hertein idd i.
Siltl arceet i. Tup fdni i eciesp yflsem dan mthe saercrhact tlsil eindsi of. Lanoe em i tomihnegs iwth do hemt eeval ni on'wt ulint eahd taht ym ltils epraap sscnee i ehva.
A iertwr 'mi sltil.
Llsit oyu i'm.
Het teuoqnsi gevnyertih rwsean entdarhenu you eht 'tasht nda i illmeytaut itnhk eotrw ot.
What eerw thiw on oyu itntgsi jenu adie no 2 okrw outab aws to pahpen at. To wenk agcehn tbu deende nwko d'ntdi ac,hnge atwh saw kloo tgsmheion ouy ot ioggn kiel uyo.
Ahtw a,trel i nxet wto onkw pphsaen sllti omshnt otn'd.
Ubt wn?o rihgt.
Erhe im'.
Mi' liigubnd mnsiehtgo nwe.
Rrfodaw oklo im' instgh to ot ninigdf.
To rynigt ielv of m'i aiesdtn ryeelm vreuvis.
Y,eah dna lyehra.
Im' fo pruod us.
,eolv.
Yraleh.
P. S. Ukcf eht eth nwod teyenulalv ni id,d lcma avyor ,cfat. Orf ccnnore anhtk yuor oyu.
P. P. S. Enxt couepl idea era fo skeew auobt on uoy atwh eyliousr,s eikl to have finkucg teh oklo. In cdenava yorrs. ️❤.

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