What I Know About Missing Details
Every honest account contains the ordinary. The coffee spilled, the meeting ran late, the bus broke down. Liars don’t invent the dull edges. They curate the story. They skip what’s boring and inconvenient. I call this AWOL: the details that vanish. What I know about missing details is simple: absence is evidence. A witness who remembers every dramatic highlight but forgets who else was present is telling you something — just not what they intended. Pay attention to what isn’t there. The silence around the story is often louder than the story itself.