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...
O'r'ielsly uqti dnid't.
Engdionwr nda alifyln idref aterf ysad tgo erhte nstitig ggion ortew if aee—levw uoy ohseco ot hiths—eret aefrt treeh ouy yrfuelos wree sday.
That heetr swhi yuo i in meso etll enolss swa i cludo feuubtila. Ew earnos a or hte hpansep hatt rneeisvu a dednee evgreiythn wnek rfo atht h,pus.
Niggo mi' ttah ont ot uoy to od.
Si incgukf eht just rlcue emsemsoti rineesuv.
Had uyo txne eth dan ieintrewv ttha y?da.
Eht nd'idt gte ojb yuo.
Ayko tbu 'htsat.
A rofeefd ouy onstiopi cusabee eohtrna ojb. Okot ouy ti.
Lessa yure'o a now aemarng arpts.
Ertaf osca,h iedd ntgtieg ned hte a nad jeep ewek sa'wnt ir,def het eoowshm of taoub euabces atht het too enev.
Yes. Hepe.
Know i.
Nacpi btu notd'. We a ahndo nwo eavh otpil. Mnae is sshe' ed,r dan yror rhe ehss' urso.
Eltrte a you eltabs yenvetrghi kees,w so iwleh opcelu rdsiondece bsclliyaa ihtiwn of eaghcnd inrigtw tshi.
Hedcagn owrk.
Het hgnaced arc.
Hnadcge lfei.
Redokw 'dndti yuo tou whrehte siad wnat okwn oyu yreientgvh to.
Atth m'i oyu aisd dlag.
Orkw on, asbcuee tdn'id uot etnrgihyev.
Gntmioehs konw eels atnewd to tub ouy.
Ouy aer fo syle?rfuo dpruo.
Hyae.
I am ualatcly.
Ygerhtvien pelfyrcte i hanldde ton caeuseb. Dnitd' i.
L's'loiyer osme euacsbe tou dan sehoc ni emntom bvaerly fo rngda mhcdrea i not femyls ctincaeim. I gte ddi'tn taht meomtn. Fmor me ywaa ahtt was ketan eiohcc.
Tog ocheso utb i afrtwader ahtw ot nhdepeap.
Pu ogt i abkc.
Teh ehrto job i ktoo.
A i lednera wne sreot.
I ameceb egaamrn a.
Hte dirfuge rca tuo i uinoiatts.
Aebt su ktep kf,lnyar enuj wihel h,wne i shit a uesbtola eht dceeddi onigg tuo of to for.
Oyu :ask nwhe so.
Fro ddi roylsefu csehoo uyo eoc?n.
Is het khnit i awerns yse.
Ywa otn ni ti het wlduo just oyu epanhp htohtug.
Os'yrie'll eth egt dngeni i ot tddni' at osheoc.
Feart inngegibn the ecma i sehoc ti hatt.
Esdak eitdr i iolizgnaogp bnieg yuo rof if also todppes.
No.
Osyrr mi'.
Lsilt htat i'm one no knwigro.
Armol nigailf nhsaiuetxo i'st moseeismt i ettar lilts leki a. Ayst i tkihn wkeaa be ot rdreha, i ge,olrn ebal iltls ouhdls tmoisseme ekep gonig r,ome od korw.
Ot tgiryn tub su eb deikrn ti ot m'i buaot.
Nteh you :aksed.
Itn's mbereemr as idd ouy emas giuirvvsn the ttah ?ignliv hntig.
I kitnh to gasrintt nylalif m'i.
Ythe sjtu pypha ngsith iev' me make ecauebs neod.
To oneg erdpi ei'v. Eogn to iseomv e'iv. Etl ethy mylesf ve'i idlsiuucor me thngsi uby iltlte lmsei ueecsab akem. Eengulyni baout i'm i lansp avhe cexiedt. Mcarh altocsno,i rae neth gaem iggon rppneaaylt beaceus a kind lntaermo and enrtylruc h'ttsa rosnep lnfgiy tsvii dregsiocinn ot lfimgni ew omlntiha kohcey etehda fo im' ofr to onw texn eht to yrvilar.
Ayil nda ovel dan na tilsl we eshan uoy ,sey brefeo euboasnnrale sak, onmtua.
Ndot' tnhsgi esmo gehcan.
Ot ribsng one whhci somt oueistqn em dlaecl hte uyo het onpiratmt.
Grniw?ti tslil rae yuo.
Yes.
Oot taht cadpoimcelt wneras is.
I hiws i 'hnteva sa trntiew i had hcum as. Cetstehrs twrinig ebne hrtee neeb dahr ehrew evah hsa. Na asybluleto ingstit ersitso reteh are ndhusfiien of eunrbm tslil douran wnaigit dsitpu ofr me.
Tbu itsoesr eth ndi'td leave.
Idd i rnihtee.
I eearct tlsli. Hrescrctaa nad difn ceispe fo upt fmeyls isltl eidnsi i hmte. Nliut i ghsitmoen my ni sltil em tath mhet i loean do iwth avhe lveae head tn'wo csnsee paaper.
Mi' itlsl rtiewr a.
Mi' uyo itlsl.
Hnikt to wrnsae uyo nad httas' i narutheend ntiouqes het luytileamt eht rtowe ignhteryve.
You ta nuej 2 no was to hiwt orkw thwa botau ephpan no wree sittign daei. Nkow wtha oggni deeend etoinsghm nchage iekl wekn acnegh, olok to d'ndit to wsa you tub yuo.
Thaw mshotn owt spnepha nxet tn'od knwo isltl i l,tera.
Ihgtr btu onw?.
Mi' rehe.
Dgbiuinl wne mi' mhtseiong.
Gnthsi indinfg rrowadf olok m'i ot ot.
Niedtas 'im rtgiyn veli merely seivvur fo ot.
Dan y,aeh halrey.
Us fo dropu im'.
Elvo,.
Elrhya.
P. S. Teh yauelelnvt lcam ,catf kfcu the in donw ovyar id,d. Khatn ryou nrneocc rof ouy.
P. P. S. Aied oautb kgunifc clpoue oyu ear fo on het to xetn oklo sewke wath eavh i,suoerysl keli. Nadveca ysorr in. ️❤.
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