Homecoming

With apologies to Thomas Wolfe:

"You can't go win homecoming,  not for your family, not for your childhood ... no matter the 'Homecoming!' in a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to seasons of victory, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time — you can't win homecoming if you get shut out in the second half."