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He sleeps over, and usually cats his dinner from my kitchen, Every Friday morning, I open my refrigerator and notive that all of the 00d food in the refrigerator is gone! All the delicious meat, all the green vegetables, everything ~ all gone. Paragraph | = just facts (about my brother's itinerary) Paragraph 2 ~ just facts (about the inventory in my reftigerator) THE POINT IS NOT JUST TO LIST THESE FACTS the point is to CORRELATE my brother's and going to the absence of the 00d food in my etigertor. -> you have to hy ‘with “common sense” — there are no RULES that are wing Sate BECAUSE THIS IS A REAL-LIFE EXAMPLE, notice two things: 1) you DONT stop at the facts ~ you examine WHY the facts are there; 2) you DON'T memorize the details! - * ‘not remember, a few minutes later, whether it was ~> most of you would probab . Wednesday or Thursday. Also, most of you wouldn't remember which specific foods were stolen.When you read a RC passage, WHY ARE YOU READING THE PASSAGE? 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