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...
Yroilse'l' tqui dn'idt.
Dan oyu inrwgonde chsoeo ot ysad were laynfil uoy —vleeeaw if otg lyfrsoue aretf dyas rhete teehr tfera tginsti ert—thsieh twore ogign fired.
Uufbalite saw in uyo that nsesol ether i udloc i hswi oems ltle. Aoersn or orf tath a ephsanp vuieersn ew hte suph, egyihvrnet ewnk hatt a deedne.
To m'i nto uoy do ahtt to oiggn.
Ujts hte iunckgf si lrecu rvnuisee ssmmiotee.
Ttah ahd dya? nda het ouy ntex wintevrie.
Job tge ouy 'idndt teh.
Utb ayko thsat'.
A obj onherat you frofede eaebucs inpiotso. Ti yuo okot.
A yr'uoe sratp won essla rgneaam.
Eubeacs a,csoh edn a of eth too hatt wemoohs het vnee dedi ingettg afrte eht otbua nda eepj kwee df,ier tsnwa'.
Esy. Ephe.
I okwn.
Btu 'dtno icanp. Won a ilpto heva nhoad ew. Mean si rd,e adn rory ehr es'sh ousr s'hes.
Gcdeanh eoincrddse uopcle tnhviyeger of itnhiw ,sekwe atbesl os a bcsalaily nrgiitw letret ouy lihew this.
Orwk angdche.
Nhcdage het arc.
Ifle ndcehag.
Dwokre ot nddt'i eivynethrg tuo said uoy twan kwno uoy htehrew.
Gdla ahtt dais m'i uyo.
Tdi'nd on, okrw ihrnevetgy uot saeceub.
Tub know antedw to seel uyo tnmohegis.
Of erulyo?fs pduro are uyo.
Yahe.
Ma i lataycul.
Ddhnlae tcfpreeyl i tno eeuasbc trngeyheiv. I dint'd.
I uto acuebse tcmeincai nmmtoe hseoc ton fo dahcmer in dan lyrso'lei' semo bryevla agdnr ysefml. I tge tmenmo ntdi'd atth. Omrf wsa thta em coiehc tneka wyaa.
Ocheso twha i eandhppe to got ubt awtrrdafe.
Cakb pu i tog.
Ootk i eth ehrto jbo.
Ardnlee i a nwe eorts.
I rageanm ceameb a.
I tsnioitau teh rgiuedf uto rca.
Het tish etab iwhle us anykfl,r oigng ot a ,hewn eddedci of jnue eptk uto i fro stubaloe.
Nwhe as:k oyu os.
Cn?oe eochso did uyo for freouysl.
The is thikn wasnre yse i.
Ni way it teh ton oghhutt juts wloud uoy napeph.
I rs'iyo'lel gdnnei to ddnit' hocsoe egt the ta.
Ti esoch eacm taht artfe ineingbgn i eth.
Asedk ioolnazigpg lsao i rfo ietdr if you dsetppo ibnge.
No.
'mi rrsoy.
Hatt siltl on rkgniow im' eon.
Its' amrol eattr a giinafl msoteemsi klie uixhotsnae stlil i. Herdr,a moseetmsi blea i peke asty akewa ogign eb okwr ot lilst do lhouds i nkthi rgelon, ,emor.
Ot it rigynt m'i to su btu eb bouat kiednr.
Nthe yuo :aksed.
Het sa ames ?nligvi srvuingvi 'stni uyo mbremeer ddi tgnih htta.
Nyilfal ktnih i'm ntitrags i ot.
'iev tjus hety ghstni amke endo phpay em eacsube.
Eridp ot neog vei'. Meosiv nego eiv' to. Akem hety useabec etl nhgsit iemls me ulidciusro uyb 'vei slemyf liltte. 'im i iyeunleng plans haev obtau cdxteei. Hoekyc hnte m'i we a oli,csanto lravryi nad to morteanl rmhac txen noigg mnihaotl inimglf rcedgnionis eatdeh rlyppnaeat era iknd siitv lyifng teh to now rfo hatst' sbeuace fo game to snorep nrtyelurc.
,sye and aks, esnah ew na aluornasnbee ayil amotnu ovel eeforb adn sltil uyo.
Semo cgnhea d'tno igtshn.
Caldle eno rinbsg oprtiatmn me hte ot somt the toeniqus uyo hwchi.
Yuo era tlils girtw?in.
Sey.
Atht pcceaomditl oot newars si.
Cmuh sa vt'ehan as i rwentit wihs i i hda. Ahs ehret adhr eebn bene veha irinwtg wehre cstehsret. Tawngii isetrso laltosbuye nrduao of ltsli trhee em rea niigstt feihiudnns tuispd na rfo nmebru.
Teh dtdn'i eeavl storesi tbu.
Tnreieh i idd.
I stlil atrcee. Nsedii adn of tshcraerca epiesc find ehmt ilstl i upt sfemyl. Them i me sohiegnmt od hdea stlli aleev on'wt in i my evha liunt aleno tiwh rapeap ensesc htta.
M'i ewrirt ltlsi a.
Uoy mi' tllis.
Eht treow oyu dertnnehau seanwr i eattuillym thsa't dan kntih nusteiqo to neyhirvget het.
No 2 ejun thwa ot rkow deia uoy aws no pphane at whti gtntiis were tobua. Liek chnage ouy tahw kolo to btu 'iddtn ggnoi deeedn sgmtheion ot nokw asw ne,hacg you kewn.
Osthnm r,tela tow xent tn'od atwh onkw i tsill anspehp.
Btu hrtig ?nwo.
Mi' eher.
Bnigdilu gstnhimeo i'm ewn.
Ot 'mi gninfdi hgnits olko ot ofarrwd.
Mi' ot of levi lemyre nadetsi veuvisr ginryt.
Adn a,yeh haeylr.
Fo dprou su 'mi.
Vel,o.
Yhalre.
P. S. Ownd t,afc ni ryova almc fcuk uvllentaye eth eth d,id. For tnhak uyo oruy cencnro.
P. P. S. Fo no txne hvae hte coluep oue,siyrls look keil hawt swkee edai you ifnkcgu rae oubta to. Ni dcvneaa ysror. ️❤.
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