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Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason.""I told you I should have stayed home!" Billy protested plaintively. "I'm missing the first game of the playoffs, and my team really needs me!""I understand—" began his father."No, you don't understand," said Billy, "because you never cared about anything like I care about baseball, not in your whole life."
Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason.""Billy Mason Farrell," his father had said, "I want you to listen to me. We need you to stay at Grandma M's tonight. I know how you feel about her, and I’m not saying you’re wrong, but there isn’t enough room for all of us here at the main farm house.""I told you I should have stayed home!" Billy protested plaintively. "I'm missing the first game of the playoffs, and my team really needs me!""I understand—" began his father."No, you don’t understand," said Billy, "because you never cared about anything like I care about baseball, not in your whole life.""I'm not going to argue with you," said his father. "My family lives on this farm, we come out here for one week every summer, and Grandma M needs to be included in this visit. I want you to take one for the team."
Read the passage from "The Pursuit of Happiness."The woman on the far side of the desk looks at the floor,Her head full of Irelandand the potatoes that blackened and curled and rotted away.We grew only sadness thereShe wants to say.But this she whispers instead: 'I have come to work as a chambermaid"And the Important Person stamps her papers without hearing the rest."To scrub floors and wash linens until my hands are red and raw,and I have polished happiness for my child So she can become a teacher with hands the color of cream."
Read the passage from "The Pursuit of Happiness.""Why have you come to America?"
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