By Jack Linshi
While Greece nears economic rock bottom and puppies perish in China, over in the States a crisis of equal proportions is unfolding: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are splitting up.
Though a handful of Twitter users decided to keep their cool and sent good wishes to the ex-couple — and their three kids — most fans whipped out their teary-eyed emojis and caps-lock, and sobbed out their heartbreak into 140 characters. Indeed it was only last week that the Twitter-verse was chanting #LoveWins, but this week, well, it seems love is dead.
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