Akin addicts, on the other hand, will emerge undernournished, granted only fitfully the shots of scruffy yearning that we crave: Zinos, say, staggering from a bar at dawn, onto a gray road, with a fellow-drinker propped against him, or holding sad, horny conversations on a video linkup with his distant girlfriend.
My thoughts and prayers this Mother's Day 2015 are for all the mothers, including those who do not always - or ever - get thanked, remembered or even thought of and those for whom the day holds sad reminders.
"Don't these clowns have anything else better to do with their time other than to hold sad, anti-democracy protests?" she asked, perhaps unaware that the right to peaceful protest is generally accepted as one of democracy's basic tenets.
Women all over are holding onto sad, sad memories of their previous labors and birth, and if not worked through, they are taking them with them to the next birth and the one after that, never freeing their mind to the idea that it could be different next time.
There will also, of course, be a black-tie fundraising ball held in sad memoriam.
More cerebral types might dig up some or other holocaust film that's sadder than Jerry Sadowitz holding a SAD lamp over a Mike Leigh housewife with seasonal affective disorder.
Funny Or Die helped them out and held a Sad-Off to help them settle the debate.
I removed the mismatched shelf holding a sad history of unread galleys and put it in my now emptier bedroom closet, where it has been put to better use.
It added: "Griesa holds the sad record of being the first judge to declare a sovereign state in contempt for paying a debt, after failing in his attempt to block the restructuring of the foreign debt of Argentina".
His house is located in an isolated part of Anori, a village in Antioquia, the province in the north-west of the country which holds the sad record of having the highest number of landmine accidents in the country.
