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Ari's 20 Favorite Songs to Play on Repeat Before, During or After a Breakup

It's 10:30 at night and I should be sleeping, but instead I feel like creating a random playlist. See, I've been washing and twisting my hair for the past 3 hours.  During that time, I went through 3 different playlists on Spotify. For 3 hours straight, I've been belting out some of my favorite jams from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. I mean, JAMS.

Anywho, that trip down memory lane reminded me of some songs I used to help me deal with heartbreak from elementary school all the way until my late 20s. So tonight, I reminisce over all the boys who broke my heart throughout the years. This one is for you.

1) Mya- If You Died I Wouldn't Cry Cause You Never Loved Me Anyway
2) Ginuwine - Lonely Daze
3) Vikter Dupkaix - Another Great Love Gone By
4) Jill Scott - Slowly Surely
5) Dru Hill - All Alone
6) P!nk - Stop Falling
7) Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
8) Donell Jones - Gotta Get Her (Outta My Head)
9) Rhianna - Damn
10) Alexander Oneal - A Broken Heart Can Mend
11) Bilal - Think It Over
12) 702 - Gotta Leave
13) Jagged Edge - Hard
14) Maze ft Frankie Beverly - Can't Get Over You
15) Immature - Please Don't Go
16) 112 - Pleasure and Pain
17) Eric Roberson - Past Paradise
18) The Foreign Exchange - This City Ain't the Same Without You
19) Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
20) Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack- Where is the Love

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