A Grand Canyon Sized Broken Heart

Whenever someone's heart breaks a peice of the world breaks with it, resulting in valleys, fissures, and even cracks in the pavement. This is the story which resulted in the forming of the Grand Canyon.
A childhood romance between an esteemed princess and a poor farmer, showing that as much as we want to keep our hearts from breaking sometimes they do. This story begs the question is loved and lost truly better than never loving at all?