Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Alison McGhee
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Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking. In her memoir, "My Life On The Road," Janis Joplin described the pain of a broken heart. She said, "Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking." We all have felt this pain when we've fallen in love.

We've been besotted, in love and convinced that our beloved was the one for us. But she has left us. And we've been left in a state of despair.

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

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