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Pre-Reading Task While-Reading Task After-Reading Task ;Pre-reading Task;Fortune 500 Pomp and Circumstance;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Text-related Information;Pre-reading Task;Text B Detailed Study of the Text; Text B A Homecoming of a Different Sort 1 Jeff and I had many conversations during the year, but I will always remember the time he told me about his family. His mother, a loving, caring woman, was the one who held the family together. She died shortly before Jeff graduated from high school. His father, a successful physician, cold and stern in Jeff’s words, had firm beliefs that a person would never make a valuable contribution to the world unless they attended and graduated from college by the age of twenty-three. His father had even paved the way for Jeff to attend the same college from which he graduated, and had offered to pay Jeff’s entire tuition and living expenses. As an active Alumni Association member, he was excited that his son would someday follow in his footsteps.;2 Jeff was twenty-seven and a successful business planner at a Fortune 500 company –– without a degree. His passion was skiing. When he graduated from high school he decided to decline his father’s offer and instead move to Colorado to work with a ski patrol. With pain in his eyes Jeff told me that he still remembered the day he told his father he was going to forego college and take a job at a ski resort. He remembered every word of the short conversation. He told his father of his passion for skiing and for the mountains and then of his plans. His father looked off into the distance, his face became red, and his eyes squinted and bored into Jeff.; Then came the words that still echoed in Jeff’s mind: “You lazy kid. No son of mine is going to work on a ski patrol and not attend college. I should have known