If offered a choice between death and exile, he said that he would choose 'the former'. [=he would choose death]
They hope to restore the old theater to its 'former' glory. [=to make it as good as it was in the past]
She is now just a shadow of her 'former' self. [=she is not the same person she once was]
(..) me like that before thats because eveyones mouth is usually full of your wife's box your hired shit. well, i am a former celebrity in a minimum wage job this is how the cast of different strokes feels all day, every day.Aweful, they must feel aweful..the live ones must feel aweful. (..)2012 Ted