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truth and its own lies into what it, he or she will or will not accomplish. Very interesting. Keep that in mind.

So, do we mean what we say when we're drunk?

Padraic urges you to now contemplate the word "we." Is it we, the royal "we," meaning above standard humans? Is it "We," humanity, a far more elusive term? We, you and I? No, of course not, that would be too easy. What is it? Okay, for this article's intentions, it's WEmeaning YOU. Whoever is reading. That's it. That's the best Padraic can do right now, and I think you should be lenient on this matter, since I am a bottle of Wine, for crying out loud. For it/WE to include me, I would have to be able to know what it is to be human and also what it's like to be drunk, and since I am the means to the immediately aforementioned drunkenness, I can't claim in good conscience to know all the ins and outs of the experience from the human side. Whoo hee. What a question!

But, onward. Oh, Padraic, you might ask, what does all this have to do with me? Sit tight, grasshopper. Aside from the obvious egocentric dilemma that you are now in, you have to admit this is unusual, isn't it? Reading articles from Wine with nothing better to do but educate you? Take this experience for what it is, I promise there is, however trivial, a point to it.

Readers, you are familiar with the Butterfly Theory, are you not? No? For those of you that are, bear with this exceptionally chatty arrangement of grapes, for those of you that are not, read on and consider.

In a nutshell, The Butterfly Theory, by Padraic, A Bottle Of Wine: A butterfly flaps it's wings four continents away, and that change in air conditions causes a fly to divert into the mouth of a chameleon whose now-extra weight causes a branch to fall into a river. That branch is the weight that causes the beaver-built dam blocking the river to break, which interferes with farmers' ability to water their crops. The lack of a good crop causes the chief of a tribe to sell his oldest daughter to a drug running gang that utilizes her to pass messages back and forth. The most important message the daughter is supposed to carry is diverted by her catching sight of her younger brother being loaded on a boat headed for another country, causing the murder of the head of the drug running gang. She stows away on the boat and reunites with her brother. When they arrive at their destination, the brother and sister escape and flee to a camp for displaced foreign nationals, and there they

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