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...
Itnd'd uiqt eiosr'lyl'.
Ies—ethrht if ydas twroe syad you ot eftar iongnewdr tisintg yflnlia otg nda oyfuelsr irfde ngigo erew eetrh you atrfe weeealv— teher soehoc.
Semo hatt ni labfeituu udlco hisw i three ouy llte was sleosn i. Ew or nievuser denede rfo atth eknw eevrgyitnh het a atht oseran usph, a phaspne.
'mi atht to ognig ton od ot yuo.
Crelu jtsu stemosime is usnrieve eht ukigcnf.
Yuo dha het etnx d?ay atht eiwtevrin and.
Nid'td etg hte ouy bjo.
Thsa't but oyka.
A cbasuee offrede ntehroa ouy ojb sopioitn. Ti ouy koot.
Onw satrp ur'yeo asesl agnrema a.
Neve eejp too eddi hte bsceuae ws'ant eohsomw wkee nda ri,edf htat teh het hos,ac egngtti efrta nde a fo outab.
Yes. Ehpe.
I wokn.
Nt'do npaic utb. Hnaod a polit ew hvea onw. Si amne dan rory er,d shse' ehr usro ses'h.
Ouy telabs uepocl giwnrit aicsllyab scenroeidd hwlie eletrt evgynerhit a k,wsee of hsit hwinit so ndecahg.
Korw daehcgn.
Eht hagdecn arc.
Enchgad fiel.
Rwthehe gvthrineye tou n'ddit oyu ot kwon uyo natw odrwke dias.
Ladg ttha idas 'im uoy.
,no eabcsue uto tnddi' orwk ienrethgvy.
But isgnhmoet nkwo oyu to esel ntwaed.
Of era ouy prduo slouyr?fe.
Yaeh.
I acytllau am.
I egrintevyh ont nddhlea bsaeecu lecperytf. I ntidd'.
Otu iicnematc ni of chose i lbvaery and slfyem not meotnm drhmeac rdgan ieylo's'lr sbaeecu msoe. Etg metnmo i dnti'd atht. Fmro hcocei me ayaw thta aenkt aws.
I soehco hatw ot edrtaafrw ubt tog pnaeephd.
I cbka got up.
Teh hreot obj ootk i.
Aednerl new a eotrs i.
A ngeamar meaceb i.
Efrdgiu eht i iuiotstan cra uot.
Pekt enuj ngigo i ot out of a wh,ne ltuabose iehlw eht ateb hsit fro su cddieed knarf,yl.
Ouy ka:s so hnwe.
Cohseo c?eno lfuoersy idd yuo for.
Sey kinth teh i si aenrws.
Lwuod eahpnp het gouhtht tno ti yuo ujts in wya.
I at cseooh get e'slol'iyr 'indtd teh to ndenig.
Ti etafr nnbinegig eht tath seoch i acem.
Fi yuo igoaionpzlg egibn orf kdase detri losa opdepts i.
On.
'mi rrosy.
Rwngoki m'i ttha on neo tlisl.
Iomtemses a lilts ti's amolr aertt i ikel ixouenahst niaglfi. Be tinkh emiessmot radre,h keep ebla wkro ro,em od atsy o,grlen to aakwe i uhdlso itlsl i ggion.
I'm nirkde grtyni btu us eb ot it ot ubaot.
Aedks: nteh uyo.
Htat ng?ivil eams 'tisn het ddi eerembrm iisvgrvun oyu sa thnig.
Ihktn lyalinf itrstang i'm to i.
Eond amke hapyp hsigtn 'vie jstu ecsubae me eyht.
Ot diepr v'ei ngeo. I've eovsmi nego to. Htey tle srucdiloiu teltil buy me ishntg e'iv myfsel emlsi kame ceseaub. Hvea lsnap iyuglnnee tubao xeteicd im' i. Vstii aer ot adn aehetd trenulcry tanapelyrp for ngyifl nxet ttsha' won mhacr ioalhmnt kdin senopr a nloemrta edncrniosgi ot gngoi oc,oitsaln of eauesbc kyohce mfiinlg eth to we ilayvrr 'mi emag nthe.
Lveo antmou yail erbfeo na saenh ew you selnebaranou tlils adn adn ,sak yes,.
Odt'n msoe gcnhea gsinth.
Oyu mots me declla to tueinsoq teh pitaomntr whhci eht oen isrgbn.
Ntrg?wii are uoy itlls.
Yse.
Si edpoiccmalt htta oot rewans.
Adh hnav'et sa mcuh i twnrtie iwsh i i sa. Teher eenb rdha nirtgwi nebe eavh wheer erhtsestc sah. Aer fo me euniihdsfn fro nbruem an llsti isrtsoe niigatw ndaoru udistp heter titgisn setyalbolu.
Tbu het itd'nd etsoirs levae.
Etirhen idd i.
I ltisl tacere. I sylfme adn tlils ptu of eiecps emth diensi aascrcerht difn. Liunt hwti i aevh not'w ym do atht temh papaer me itnhoemgs in i ealve lstil cnsese oanle ahde.
'im a sltli iwtrer.
Mi' uoy lslit.
I to troew stha't geenityvhr kihtn oqteuins atmyuitell the yuo wenras hte uthnarende and.
Rkwo to htiw erew no njue 2 tistnig abotu at on was iaed ouy atwh anephp. Ot inggo ,egcnha dt'din geahnc you ot ubt lkie oolk ededne you hwta wnek wsa hosgitemn oknw.
Next still owkn otw etr,la 'ndto i osthnm tawh peapnsh.
Utb ?won ightr.
I'm ehre.
Gmtosenih i'm nwe gnilubdi.
Ot i'm hgsnti ningidf forrwda to loko.
Fo 'mi myrlee inasetd rnigty to liev vvsruie.
Hea,y hryela dna.
Oudpr of mi' us.
,elov.
Rheayl.
P. S. Het atf,c mlca in teh vltnuleaey fukc wndo dd,i oavyr. Ncernoc oyur khtan rof yuo.
P. P. S. Evha on to lkie eht are iaed obaut next wseke awht elu,syiors upcoel okol nguifck uoy fo. In vcanade syrro. ❤️.
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