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Great job on conveying those thought! I made a correction because so implies cause. Not having eaten something in a long time doesn't make it delicious. It could make you *remember* it is delicious and it can make you happy. English does have an idiom saying absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that it typically only used for something you are not that fond of to start with, so that fact that it's been absent for a while makes you sort of forget what you didn't like about it and, by default, your heart grows a bit fonder of it. I don't think that would quite work for what you seem to have wanted to convey.