May 6, 2023:
Those restaurants now are gone. Yen Ching, Consuelo's, Lino's. Margarita's is a diner. Filippi's is a chain with a location in every neighborhood; but the once amazing crunchfest salad is now ordinary and I never was nuts for their pizza.
Granted change is always, there's some sadness in these specific changes. These were points of contact which were meaningful and which I'd like to revisit. As though there might be some lingering outline or vibration or ghost of that contact still present in the molecules.
I don't know how to put this nostalgia behind.