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SAUDADE
(n.) a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; the love that remains
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A SAD FAREWELL
for all the time i've known you,
to the present — now our past;
i know never to forget you;
though regret still pains my heart.
had i known, i would not have left you,
alone beneath those stars,
on the night when i last saw you,
not knowing it was the last.
— unknown.
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