Saudade.

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Saudade
/ souˈdädə /
noun.
1. a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return.

Saudade washes over the girl whenever her thoughts stray to her mother, who has long gone from not just her life, but this Earth as well.

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