Yes, absence does make the heart grow fonder. Ever since I went to college, I've been on much better terms with my parents, though those terms usually disintigrated a bit over summer vacation. But now...6 months...yeah.
And I had the hardest time writing that first sentence. One day in my art class, the prof. was talking about some artist and his affinity for absinthe. Apparently this affected the artist's color choices, because he began using more yellow or made his people blond, something along those lines. Anyway, the prof. then posed the question to the class "Did absinthe make the art grow blonder?" and it's been stuck in my head ever since.