Where do all the broken hearts go?
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Belly button lint
November 2013 to April 2015
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
D.'s stomach had a particular arrangement of body hair that made his belly button prone...
JM
Posted Dec 02, 2019
The Boots
January 1984 to December 2019
The Boots
My husband of 31 years, bought a pair of stylish tan Boots to impress his –un...
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2 Claddagh rings
03/01/2003 - 14/08/2017
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
14.5 years, 4 countries and 3 rings. I lost the first ring down a drain and he replaced...
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A drawing of us made by a stranger in the train
2013-2015
Helsinki, Finland
We met at a students Valentine's Day party, the connection was immediate. She came into...
AL
Posted May 05, 2019
Sunflower
5/5/2019
Raleigh, United States
It started off slowly…..So slow that I was completely oblivious as to what was happenin...
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A postcard
Yerevan, Armenia
I am a 70-year-old woman from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. I visited Zagreb back in...
PA
Posted Apr 16, 2019
A long distance relationship
17 tir 2018
I truely loved him, This is where i first kissed him, and he always reminds me of that ...
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Watch
December 2002
Menznau, Switzerland
In 2002, when I was still young and innocent, I spent November and December in Vancouve...
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A plush Snoopy
30 years
Leiden, Netherlands
He gave Snoopy to me on my 17th birthday.
We had fallen in love six months earlier, on...
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An Exe Axe
Berlin
She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to ...
Posted Aug 13, 2018
Josh
June 1
Churwalden, Switzerland
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A stiletto shoe
1966, six weeks, and 1998, a few hours
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
It was 1959, I was ten, T. was eleven. We were very much in love. When I told my mother...
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Espresso machine
Too long, last 20 years of the past century
Paris, France
For a long time he loved the coffee I made for him using the espresso machine he gave m...
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A key - bottle opener
Ljubljana, Slovenia
You talked to me of love and presented me with small gifts every day; this is just one ...
Posted Feb 14, 2019
The last Valentine
2016
I told him once when I was a kid I use to only eat hobby chocolate bars,no fruits, no s...
JM
Posted Oct 05, 2019
Boots
1985-2016
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Sailing to NYC
Jun 16, 2017
Flatiron Plaza
In partnership with Bravo’s A Night With My Ex, the Museum of Broken Relationships will soon unveil its first New York City exhibition. From poignant to playful, the selected objects and their stories will be on display at a pop-up installation in the Flatiron Plaza from Sunday July 16 to Monday July 17.