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Resignation letter

Dear Jessica Pearson,

Effective immediately, I, Michelal James Ross, am resigning from Pearson Darby, just like you all want.

I thank you for the opportunity you and Harvey gave me but let's face it, I wasn't meant to stay and you never wanted me to stay after you found I didn't have a degree, you only kept me because you didn't want to lose Harvey.

Betraying Harvey was one of the worst things I've ever done, and it tore me apart but having the people I once considered family treat me like I don't exist ripped me up to the point where I broke a promise I made to Harvey: I started smoking pot again and in a way it's your fault.

Jessica, you are the most fearless, strong, independent woman I've ever met and you gave me a second chance but with that second chance, I lost the man I considered my older brother, the woman I considered a mother and you, the woman who gave me a second chance, my family.

Harvey, you're one of the few people that I trust, well trusted, you're the older brother that I wanted but never got, you showed me that there was another life for me to live a life I never knew existed until you showed me how. You gave me a chance to turn my life around and I did, even though I made quite a few mistakes along the way. The minute I betrayed you, you stopped treating me like a brother, you started treating me like a stranger, giving me a ton of work with crazy to meet deadlines but I did it all because I wanted us to get back to where we were but it's become quite clear to me in the last month that we never will be like we used to, so instead of making you life harder, I'm making it easier for you, I'm resigning and that means you'll never have to hear from me or see me ever again, it'll be like I never existed which is what you, Donna and the rest of my so-called family have already been doing so it shouldn't be that different from the last month, goodbye Harvey, thank you for giving me a life that I never knew existed.

Donna, you were the one who mothered me and while it looked like I hated it, inside I loved it, it's been years since I've had a mother and you slipped into it like the role of being my 'mother' was made for you. When I betrayed Harvey, you did something much worse than treating me like you don't exist, you made me feel like I never belonged here, which is what I hadn't felt like for a very long time, not until you started treating me the way you did. You'll be happy to know that I'm resigning so that means you'll never have to deal with me again. Goodbye Donna.

Thank you all for the opportunity and the family I received.

Michael James Ross.

Jessica, Harvey and Donna all look at each other with the same question:

What have they done?