“Why have you left this out?”

He pointed to a project.

“I thought it might be too much detail.”

“It explains what you did.”

I looked at the line again and added it.

He did not write a title for me at Pacific Harbor Freight.

He did not tell a manager to create a position and call it independence.

He helped me describe my experience, made coffee, and stayed with the babies when I needed time for applications and conversations.