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There is a term in Portuguese, saudade, which my Portuguese-American sister-in-law tells me has no absolute English translation. But it is meant to describe a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves, according to Wikipedia, which also notes that, Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It s safe to say the feelings of saudade are all over the place right now as we hit the one year mark of life in pandemic times. And those final days lived in ignorant bliss are both a salve and melancholic trigger.