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(1) It hit me one day. (2) I realized that my mother wasn't offended so much by Grandpa's house as by its owner. (3) The needed repairs saddened her because they reminded her of the man who refused to make them. (4)Catching her glance in Grandpa's direction , then seeing her sink into a bottomless gloom, I got it, though I assumed the problem with Grandpa had something to do with how he looked. (5) Along with his house, Grandpa let himself go to pot.(6) He wore pants with patches, shoes with holes, shirts wet with his saliva and leavings from his breakfast, and he went days without combing his hair or putting in his teeth or bathing. (7)He used and reused his razor so many times that his cheeks looked as if he'd been clawed by a wild cat.(8) He was crusty.rumpled, sour-smelling , and one other thing that my mother could never tolerate-lazy. (9)Grandpa had long since stopped trying. (10) As a young man he'd lost or shed whatever ambition he'd possessed. (11) When his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player crumbled to dust.he drifted into the insurance business , enjoying a success that turned his stomach. (12) How cruel of fate, he thought, to make him excel at a job he loathed (13)He got his revenge on fate. (14) The moment he amassed enough money to generate a dependable income for the rest of his life,he quit. (15) From then on he did little more than watch his house fall apart and make his family cringe. (16) We cringed that much more when he took his act on the road. (17) Every day at dusk Grandpa would walk uptown to greet the rush-hour trains from the city.(18) As commuters stepped onto the platform and discarded their final -edition newspapers , Grandpa would dive into one of the garbage cans and fish a newspaper out, intent on saving himself a few cents. (19) Seeing him with his legs sticking out of a garbage can, no commuter could have imagined why that poor old hobo wanted that final edition in the first place to check the closing prices on his sizable portfolio of stocks and bonds. From J. R. Moehringer,The Tender Bar. Q2005 by J. R. Moehringer. Question In the second paragraph (sentences 5-15 ), the author indicates that Grandpa "got his revenge on fate" by leaving his job rather than continuing to succeed at something he despised becoming an insurance salesman rather than pursuing a career in baseball turning his back on the family that had always supported him taking a job at another insurance company that had offered him a higher salary

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(1) It hit me one day. (2) I realized that my mother wasn't offended so much by Grandpa's house as by its owner. (3) The needed repairs saddened her because they reminded her of the man who refused to make them. (4)Catching her glance in Grandpa's direction , then seeing her sink into a bottomless gloom, I got it, though I assumed the problem with Grandpa had something to do with how he looked. (5) Along with his house, Grandpa let himself go to pot.(6) He wore pants with patches, shoes with holes, shirts wet with his saliva and leavings from his breakfast, and he went days without combing his hair or putting in his teeth or bathing. (7)He used and reused his razor so many times that his cheeks looked as if he'd been clawed by a wild cat.(8) He was crusty.rumpled, sour-smelling , and one other thing that my mother could never tolerate-lazy. (9)Grandpa had long since stopped trying. (10) As a young man he'd lost or shed whatever ambition he'd possessed. (11) When his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player crumbled to dust.he drifted into the insurance business , enjoying a success that turned his stomach. (12) How cruel of fate, he thought, to make him excel at a job he loathed (13)He got his revenge on fate. (14) The moment he amassed enough money to generate a dependable income for the rest of his life,he quit. (15) From then on he did little more than watch his house fall apart and make his family cringe. (16) We cringed that much more when he took his act on the road. (17) Every day at dusk Grandpa would walk uptown to greet the rush-hour trains from the city.(18) As commuters stepped onto the platform and discarded their final -edition newspapers , Grandpa would dive into one of the garbage cans and fish a newspaper out, intent on saving himself a few cents. (19) Seeing him with his legs sticking out of a garbage can, no commuter could have imagined why that poor old hobo wanted that final edition in the first place to check the closing prices on his sizable portfolio of stocks and bonds. From J. R. Moehringer,The Tender Bar. Q2005 by J. R. Moehringer. Question In the second paragraph (sentences 5-15 ), the author indicates that Grandpa "got his revenge on fate" by leaving his job rather than continuing to succeed at something he despised becoming an insurance salesman rather than pursuing a career in baseball turning his back on the family that had always supported him taking a job at another insurance company that had offered him a higher salary

(1) It hit me one day. (2) I realized that my mother wasn't offended so much by Grandpa's house as by its owner. (3) The needed repairs saddened her because they reminded her of the man who refused to make them. (4)Catching her glance in Grandpa's direction , then seeing her sink into a bottomless gloom, I got it, though I assumed the problem with Grandpa had something to do with how he looked. (5) Along with his house, Grandpa let himself go to pot.(6) He wore pants with patches, shoes with holes, shirts wet with his saliva and leavings from his breakfast, and he went days without combing his hair or putting in his teeth or bathing. (7)He used and reused his razor so many times that his cheeks looked as if he'd been clawed by a wild cat.(8) He was crusty.rumpled, sour-smelling , and one other thing that my mother could never tolerate-lazy. (9)Grandpa had long since stopped trying. (10) As a young man he'd lost or shed whatever ambition he'd possessed. (11) When his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player crumbled to dust.he drifted into the insurance business , enjoying a success that turned his stomach. (12) How cruel of fate, he thought, to make him excel at a job he loathed (13)He got his revenge on fate. (14) The moment he amassed enough money to generate a dependable income for the rest of his life,he quit. (15) From then on he did little more than watch his house fall apart and make his family cringe. (16) We cringed that much more when he took his act on the road. (17) Every day at dusk Grandpa would walk uptown to greet the rush-hour trains from the city.(18) As commuters stepped onto the platform and discarded their final -edition newspapers , Grandpa would dive into one of the garbage cans and fish a newspaper out, intent on saving himself a few cents. (19) Seeing him with his legs sticking out of a garbage can, no commuter could have imagined why that poor old hobo wanted that final edition in the first place to check the closing prices on his sizable portfolio of stocks and bonds. From J. R. Moehringer,The Tender Bar. Q2005 by J. R. Moehringer. Question In the second paragraph (sentences 5-15 ), the author indicates that Grandpa "got his revenge on fate" by leaving his job rather than continuing to succeed at something he despised becoming an insurance salesman rather than pursuing a career in baseball turning his back on the family that had always supported him taking a job at another insurance company that had offered him a higher salary

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The author indicates that Grandpa "got his revenge on fate" by leaving his job rather than continuing to succeed at something he despised.
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