That does sound very USA! But there's a bocci club on Mayfield Road in Little Italy, so you may appreciate the Italian version too.

There's a saying in my hometown that could be translated in English as "getting close counts only in bocce". It does apply today because I just heard that I arrived 2nd for a 1.5 million euros research grant 😥

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I will send them to you in private 🙂