#116
job loss · handwritten card · months · 120-180 words
Your old grad school friend was denied tenure three months ago after 7 years at her university. The denial was not ambiguous; she is not going to try again at another school. Her academic career is over. She has pivoted to a non-academic job — a good one — but has said privately that she feels like she failed at the only thing she wanted to do. You are mailing her a card from across the country. 120-180 words. Just the card itself, no preamble.