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Saudade is a Portuguese language word difficult to translate adequately, which describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for someone that once was found and now is lost.
It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.
Saudade was once described āthe love that remainsā after someone is gone
It can be described as emptiness, like someone that should be there is missing, and the individual feels this absence.
āI lied, sorry. I lied a lot to you. I thought I was way too broken to be fixed, butā¦I think Iām getting better now. I think Iām finally getting over you. I used to think I couldnāt live without you⦠Us⦠But I can. Itās not as good, but itās⦠living.ā