I feel that they restore me, in very necessary ways.
The deep flavour of the cheese immediately restores me and restores my appetite".
They all say the same thing, he laughs: "Please restore me".
The departure from Romania "did not liberate me, the return did not restore me," he writes.
The Back Store didn't sell me a back, but physical therapy eventually restored me the use of my own.
"It also restores me to the implied integrity and dignity of my rank".
Capping the story off with "And we were happy to have it!" absolutely makes their day and restores me to my proper place in their historical timeline which, as far as I can tell, is the Pleistocene Era.
9 Even just writing this recipe down, its soothing qualities have quite restored me from the fragile state in which I was. 10 Hypertension has no cure but it is relatively easy to treat, usually with medication.
Call it survivor's guilt, or simply an etiolated ability to take pleasure in life, a reduced sense of self, but whatever, cooking and writing about food restored me to life, and still does.
I would be less than honest, however, if I said that it restored me to my 20-year-old body, and I've since passed the smaller of the two on to my 19-year-old daughter, who had been eyeing it for its erotic potential.
