Goines On: “A day without wine is like....”

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Goines considered himself to be a realist – there is no personal god, life is mostly sad – so he was taken aback by what happened the morning he glanced at an ad in the New York Times online. Was he not a realist after all, but rather an idealist?
    The shirt on the woman in the ad had a stenciled declaration beginning, “A day without wine is like....” And from the next two lines, Goines’ glancing eyes caught only the word “idea.”