““The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the desire for something that was. The central feeling is lack or loss. It is a personal sentiment of one who perceives that she is losing important pieces of herself, or the places that made her who she is. But it can also be a collective sentiment, affecting a community that loses its spatial or temporal referents, a social class that loses its position of power to history.””