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what I know about Jemma. And him. They need to know Dr. Spengler killed his wife.�
“Do you know of the Portuguese word saudade?� Gloria asks.
Chloe shakes her head. “It doesn’t really have a direct translation in English,� Gloria says, “but it refers to an emotional state of deep, nostalgic longing for something or someone that is absent, or far away. A bittersweet, melancholic, or poignant yearning for things gone.�
Jemma realizes that everything she has fought so desperately to preserve for herself is now gone: her youth, her marriage, her husband, her possessions, her children, life as she knew it. In front of her lie all her fears. Isolation. Loneliness. Age. She has been brought down by her own desperate actions to keep hold of it all, and instead she has lost it all. Every last thing.
