>>About expectations of gratitude, I have an arm-long list of _people_ to whom I am deeply grateful for helping us at crucial moments. People, not countries.
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>I suppose we all do. There are many people I am grateful to, 24 hours at a time. Ya know? Not to be obscure, "Ya know?" has been written on the blackboard at AA meetings the last couple of weeks or so. I haven't figured out who's doing it. There are a couple of suspects.
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>Back to the tournament, which you are missing out on....

...and which probably doesn't differ much from missing in :).