1.   Why even bother consummating that which was destined to be a failed romance?

2.   And as in a failed romance, we turn bitterly on the one who has failed us.

3.   BC-MILLENNIUM-BEST-SCANDAL -- When it comes to failed romance, nothing beats the British royals.

4.   Friends of the troubled teen say he was distraught over a failed romance.

5.   Her frame of mind has also been jumbled by failed romances, an off-and-on partnership with her mother and an array of legal issues.

6.   His fiancee broke their engagement, whereupon he locked the cozy house he had built for them and let it stand unused, a monument to his failed romance.

7.   In recent interviews, neighbors said he was despondent over a failed romance, and Croatian officials say his suicide had nothing to do with the accident.

8.   Instead he plunged into improvisation and allowed her to vent her feelings, especially about a failed romance that colors several songs.

9.   Luis luxuriates in the telling of a failed romance set against the background of the Nazi occupation in France.

10.   Most people, of course, bounce back from failed romances and lost jobs.