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a deep seated longing, a bittersweet nostalgia, a haunting melancholy, a mysterious incomplete-ness, a desperate yearning, a poignant sadness, an elusive wish, an irreplaceable loss, a pervasive sense of missing-ness, and other nuances unraveled in the book. Though the word saudade is untranslatable into
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for the bittersweet commodity that once ruled the world." The film's release resulted in multiple death threats against
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Serrano was born in a post-revolutionary Cuba, and after having to separate from her family and homeland just before the age of 2, Serrano was relocated to Miami as a political refugee.
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and composed of field recordings coupled with outside testimony, the film explores the lives of the descendants of the first
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