Mr Sweeney's relative John Sweeney said on Facebook he was "feeling heartbroken".
Alison was left heartbroken and paranoid, feeling that she was losing her mind.
A few time zones west, in Blackfoot, Idaho (population 12,000), a 20-year-old named Chelsey Waddell was feeling heartbroken.
Playing there has been a lifelong dream – she remembers feeling heartbroken after Brian Jones, her favourite Rolling Stone, died, and recalls the concert the band held in the park afterwards.
Whether the relationship lasted three weeks or three years, breakups can leave us feeling heartbroken, lost and even physically ill.
Whenever my 3-1/2-year-old son gets frustrated, he takes it out on me by saying, "Stupid mom". I am heartbroken and angry, feeling like my son completely disrespects me.
Please know that this horrible thing has a lot of adults feeling heartbroken, and that many of us are determined to work for a world where things like this don't happen anymore.
I can't imagine anyone watching "I, Too, Am Harvard," in which Harvard students of color recount their experiences of isolation and alienation--and how they overcame them--and not feeling heartbroken and inspired.
Whenever the emotions of my son's meltdown subside, I have often found myself feeling heartbroken for him that, despite his good intentions, sometimes he just gets it wrong.
When your baby pleads with you to offer the breast, it can leave you feeling heartbroken, selfish and frustrated.
