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...

Dit'dn loil'ryes' tuqi.
Oyu fi reaft ysda choeos iinttgs idweongnr inggo st—ihhtere —eevlaew efird ot weer ruysfeol retfa owrte rteeh lfayiln tog hteer sayd nad you.
Lcuod htat ulibfeaut mseo uoy was ihsw nsoels i ni rehte ltel i. A enrivsue a het nphspae kwne ttah ddneee rengvtyehi ps,uh aeorsn ro rof ew taht.
Ttha not ot m'i gonig do uoy ot.
Urcle is jsut uikcgnf msiemesto erunevsi eth.
Dya? eth adh xtne ouy nda taht nvritieew.
The tnd'di jbo get ouy.
Thsa't yoka tub.
Psioonti arnoteh ojb ebusace a dfeoefr uyo. Koto it uyo.
Onw ueory' elsas a genarma srtpa.
Jepe eevn shoomwe eth a'tnws a uescbae nde dna auotb atht oashc, too fo edrf,i ekew igetgtn het eidd eth refta.
Yes. Eeph.
I nwok.
O'dnt tbu apinc. Ptloi we won a hnaod ehva. Hre es'hs sour is mena rroy s'hse r,ed nda.
Eliwh stlbea chadegn esonreddic a tihs heetyrigvn pluceo inwith lcaaslbiy eke,ws uyo os tertel irnitwg of.
Hceagnd rkow.
Cegdanh car teh.
Fiel dehcang.
Oyu i'dndt nkow oyu ot wrekdo wethher tanw tegrnheviy idas uto.
Dlag htta ouy 'im idsa.
Ecbause rkwo nyeigehtrv uto ndti'd o,n.
Wetand ogmthisen you wkno lees btu ot.
Aer fo uyo drpou eu?flsroy.
Ayhe.
Laycutla am i.
Vreyhiteng i cebeaus ton dahldne eylfcpter. Nt'idd i.
Ommetn nto lbeyavr secoh i in ioeyllsr'' eamntiicc rdagn ylemsf sbeauec raemchd of nad osme uot. I tge atht ndt'id mmenot. Was yaaw me ihecco form ttha tneka.
Arertfadw oosche awth tog phdneaep ot i tub.
Cakb gto up i.
Bjo teh otok throe i.
Srtoe i a daenelr wen.
A aemcbe i amrngae.
Tituaoins i uto hte ifuedgr arc.
Su to abte epkt jenu eth out i isth ogign decdied fo ihwel fro a eosaltub ly,knfra ,ewhn.
Oyu hnwe so :kas.
Yeloursf csehoo ofr you ddi oe?nc.
I esy teh khtin nawsre is.
Ti in uoy ohtghtu wya wodul tsju not eth pehapn.
Ot teh at innedg teg i dtdni' oehsoc sl'li'oyer.
Eht nbegnigin cema thta i ecsoh ti fatre.
Eospptd edtri oasl oyu lagnzipoigo eaksd einbg if i fro.
On.
Yorrs 'mi.
Sltli kwroign neo no 'im atth.
Tis' oamrl tlils a lkei tanhseoxiu i tetra igalnif tisesmemo. Wkeaa oushdl stlli haderr, smetoeism to wkor sayt i thnki do i ,meor eb kepe giogn len,rgo elab.
'im ot ot be toabu ti kdenri ygnrti su but.
Yuo etnh :skead.
Sa hatt urisnivgv aesm is'nt vligi?n oyu breeermm gtnih hte ddi.
Anlifyl tatnrsig mi' tnkhi i to.
Em ev'i sintgh hypap eakm acbeues tyeh usjt oedn.
Irpde ot goen eiv'. 'vei emsvio ot oegn. Em ie'v uceabse tle lefmys nsitgh byu yhte rdisluciuo elmis leiltt eakm. Im' ienenlguy ietdxce ahev batou pansl i. Ew nda mi' fo mntlohia edcninirogs rmhac ,oocanitsl nwo eht are nlygfi onpsre daeteh figlnim a to cuerynltr yivrarl htne bcsaeeu rof htt'sa eockyh aptenrypal to visit amge amelrotn indk exnt oggni to.
Eansh nad ltisl nad we love erfbeo ouy tnuamo an ,eys sak, araoenlbsuen aily.
D'ont meso eghnac ithgsn.
Ornitmpat em eadllc tsom to esuinqto oyu chhwi eht eon rngisb the.
Tlsil iwrng?ti ouy are.
Sye.
Si oto aeswrn ctaomepdicl htta.
Etnahv' wihs i i sa ritwent adh sa i umhc. Itngriw ether hsa veha adhr enbe rheew eebn rseesthct. Rea nidfeunshi tniawig upidts tisoser there na ndorua tiistng ofr rnmebu listl lylsbauote of em.
Utb tosiers dn'itd eleva eth.
Did i heneitr.
I arteec lltis. Thme cisepe ifnd of i stlil sdinie arerctahsc nad upt ysfmle. Deah tlils in eprpaa my i od snseec i htem evha enaol em ihwt aelve ntow' gthmonesi atth tnilu.
A im' teiwrr lstil.
You 'im llsit.
Gievnrehyt the wnaesr nderaeuhtn 'thtas owret nad i uyo hnkti eth stiouenq ot iatutlymle.
Okwr apenhp thwa weer at njue atuob to no no hwti 2 ngsitit iade ouy wsa. Anechg but d'itdn uoy deeend nh,eacg okol swa to wken to nmtihoges wkno gigno uoy liek awht.
Slitl exnt ,ealrt oknw i two phseanp hnsotm dn'to waht.
Wno? ightr but.
I'm eerh.
Mi' new hseogntmi biiugnld.
Woardrf to mi' kolo ot ngidnif snthig.
Ot fo datisen vile yeelmr i'm ygirnt uvviser.
Rlehay ayhe, dna.
Of m'i su dupro.
Velo,.
Eralyh.
P. S. In eth the t,cfa clma cfuk yovra euatvnlyel dd,i wdno. Uyro uoy hkant ennoccr ofr.
P. P. S. Taobu you oepclu twah kolo sewek to xten inukcgf iekl aer het iead vahe on fo rs,oieusly. Yrsor denvcaa ni. ️❤.

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