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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 3172394, member: 656"] [U]Update from Sicily[/U] This Sunday morning, I came across a beehive of BB activity and came face to face with a genuine talent of the distaff persuasion. In the seaside town of Mazra del vallo, we noted numerous, local, dignitaries dressed to the kill taking (perhaps) their last, peaceful, Sunday stroll prior to the summer invasion by hordes of beachgoers. The lovely and finely decorated Cathedral was packed with the faithful .., (Southern Sicily must have been really, really wealthy...both before and after the 1693 earthquake...man, were riches spent to rebuild and decorate). But outside in the Square, under an azure sky, 6 basketball courts had been set up, one set occupied by a grade-school team in their native green, practicing up a storm in prep for an afternoon game. And on an adjacent court, a solitary young woman of considerable skill and athletic prowess (and size) was working on her mid-range jumpers and (most impressively) her under-the-basket reverse layups. Here is the young woman that Eric and Zorro assigned me to find, thought I, as I walked up to get her name and E-mail address. My wife pulled me back..."She's only 8 or 9, she noted, don't make a fool of yourself." I promise I'll be back on a few years to monitor her progress. [/QUOTE]