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...
'ddnit uqti iyo'sle'lr.
Stgniit yfilaln to featr rfaet —srhtteehi ehetr erew if tgo retwo sulyfroe sady oggin hreet dan yuo ydas dgoirwnen e—evewal rifed yuo csehoo.
Uyo ttah teerh leuaifubt oesm i lseons i ni llet sihw duclo saw. Orf we snraoe a the a hneppas ieynegvthr ttha eednde vueensir suhp, nekw ahtt or.
Ton to uyo to gigno atth mi' od.
Eth culer tusj igcnfku si vsreeinu seiosmemt.
Ouy eht htta teneviwri nad exnt dah ?yad.
The it'dnd ouy egt ojb.
Sh'tta tbu ayok.
Sbueeca otarehn you a bjo oeffder ootpsnii. Koto ouy it.
Reu'oy won eslas asrpt gmranae a.
Seebuac den uobat adn eht tfrea ewek ntwas' oot c,hoas het jpee atht iefr,d deid eomswoh enggitt of eth veen a.
Sey. Hepe.
I owkn.
Icpan 'ondt utb. A own we hvea nhoad pltio. Yrro nmea edr, si dna hre sh'es urso sh'se.
A ltetre weesk, atblse tnwhii os liweh tish iniwgtr of ouy cdoniedrse lbaaylcis dgcenha gteneyvhir eulpoc.
Chagnde kwro.
Edacghn arc het.
Ghcedan ielf.
Tnaw to wkon ergneytihv uot ddi'tn yuo uyo rethhwe idas dewrok.
Uoy 'im agdl tath iasd.
,no seaeucb hegetiyvnr ntidd' uot kwro.
To yuo soinmghet tub eesl dwante ownk.
Yuo are podur of u?slferoy.
Haey.
I uylctala am.
Addlhne i saeuecb giheyvnrte otn eeyrctlpf. Id'dnt i.
I fylmes ravlybe and mseo cieacinmt ehsoc cbeasue of grdna tno crhmaed enmomt sl'iryo'el in uto. Etg htta 'idndt emntom i. Ntkea em iccheo hatt fmro yaaw aws.
Ot rwtfadear got but haendppe hwta ceshoo i.
I abkc up got.
Jbo koot i ehotr the.
Readenl terso wne i a.
Nagrmae ebaemc a i.
I rac erfdgui teh tsiauiotn uot.
A new,h njue ot oblesatu i fo eht rfo oggin us dcideed tuo ptke lnk,afry ateb ihwle ihst.
:ska hwne uyo os.
Eohosc ?enco flesuyor for idd yuo.
Sye teh knhit i is nseawr.
Anephp eth uoy yaw ouldw hgtotuh ti ont ni tjsu.
Ot tiddn' eindgn teh i ooeshc eisyllr''o ta tge.
Etarf ti ecma hte that eosch i ignegnnbi.
Seakd rof i yuo esdppto aosl egnib fi lnooggzpiia etidr.
On.
Rsyro 'im.
'mi llits no hatt onrwgki neo.
Enixtahuos oraml eitemsmos i ts'i eikl a fniagli illts rttae. Itlls i be kwor nhkti ot ,rlngeo oem,r i pkee inogg lbea kewaa ohldsu do tasy itmmoesse had,err.
Mi' but to rndiek ti ot batou eb tigyrn su.
Neht you :sadke.
'nits ?gnviil ngiht tath ouy did sa msae teh emerrmeb uvngivirs.
I im' fallyin ot kntih strtinga.
Appyh ie'v gtinhs tyhe ujts aesbuce done me amke.
To eidpr geno i've. Vesoim to ve'i gneo. Gishnt msflye 'evi me etl smile yeht ietltl ybu kema iclrsoiuud asuebec. Ieulennyg pansl im' i ehva botau cxieted. Inao,slcto gocdniisnre of rliavry dikn ot a rosnpe ttha's lonmeatr to elrnrcyut ahimlton rea dna 'mi beuesca hten etnx tivsi we iongg mgliifn agem onw teh ot ofr eadhte fnygil khcyeo ahmcr yalaepnptr.
Dan an and oennsrbaaelu we es,y feoreb heasn uyo ilya lveo ,kas ltlis mtnuoa.
Ahnecg osem t'odn singth.
Hte euniostq to hte hwhic acleld tarminpot oyu neo rgbnis em tsmo.
Are ni?trwgi tllis uyo.
Sye.
Ctiecodplma aswnre ahtt is oot.
I hv'tena as chmu dha ttewnri i shiw sa i. Enbe hewer been ahs ethre dhra witnigr rechtsets aveh. Berumn hfnneidius tsdupi nuroda atngiwi retisos tslil fo na eehtr tsigint rea em for luteylbsoa.
Teh id'tdn osstrei ubt elvea.
I inrehte ddi.
I stlil ateecr. Tcrearcsah and i ienisd illts smlyef dfni tehm peseci utp fo. I me ni ym od llsit eavel 'ntwo reappa ehtm sncese i linut whti eonsihgtm ahtt oaeln ahev eadh.
Im' irwter lilts a.
'im isllt uoy.
To eosiutnq teh raeswn i etwro t'ahts eheygtivrn teyllutaim oyu eth htnednaeur kithn nda.
Iwth asw eida tisgint no you to 2 hatw at kowr erew no njeu buaot hpnaep. Emthgosin kile eknw td'ndi chaen,g deende oolk kwno nahceg aws thwa you oyu ot but to nggio.
Ntod' wath rt,lea kwno i ehnaspp llsti wto hosnmt tnxe.
Higtr utb o?wn.
Hree 'mi.
'mi ohnetmisg uibilngd wen.
Iinngdf tgshin loko rwoarfd ot im' to.
Ot 'im ytirng iatdsen fo eurivvs vlei eermyl.
Yeharl nad ,ahey.
Upord su fo m'i.
Voe,l.
Erayhl.
P. S. Teh lleanueyvt ryova ni teh dnwo fcku ,idd calm ,fact. Nahkt cnrneoc uyo uyro ofr.
P. P. S. Tahw uotab no het diea oyusrise,l weesk txen uoy era ot ikle ahve of kgunicf lkoo oplecu. Ni yosrr aecdvan. ️❤.
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