Ranger
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Podcast Appearances
I answered the questions that were reasonable to answer and turned the ones that weren't back into questions of my own.
I asked him about Boise.
I asked him about regional sales.
I asked him what his company sold.
He said industrial valves.
I asked him what kind.
He said all kinds.
I asked him what his biggest client was.
He said he wasn't supposed to say.
I asked him how long he had been doing it.
He said almost 20 years.
I asked him if he had a family.
He said his wife had passed.
I said I was sorry.
He said it was a long time ago, and he had made peace with it.
Those were normal answers.
They were the answers that a 53-year-old widower regional sales manager would give.
But the rhythm was off.
There's a way that a person talks about their own life that carries weight from the inside.
And there's a way that a person talks about a life they have memorized from the outside.