It can also, admittedly, be pretty maddening since birds have a tendency to hide, and metabolisms and heightened senses of their own mortality that make them, on the whole, rather peripatetic creatures.

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When you are denied the ability to see the three-course meal, watch your partner talk or see the restaurant, you will find food - and all your senses - heightened.

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Mr. ASTON-REESE: It's - well, the - you know, it starts more emotionally and mentally, because I've - believe it or not, my senses are much more heightened now, because I'm glued to those screens, looking for any blip that might show, what Adam always asks me, a crack in the ice, to show that we're going to get moving again.

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