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if you broke the wire and also the spring
Your options are limited. I'm assuming that you have a wood door. Without the spring, you don't have a chance of getting the door up, especially if it's for a two-car opening. From your description, the torsion spring itself is broken. Can you replace it yourself? Maybe. But be aware that it's relatively dangerous in the spectrum of home improvement jobs. As an example, I have one of those home repair books that covers fixing everything in your house that I bought years ago. In that whole book, there is only one thing I ever read that said (and I paraphrase) "do not attempt to fix this yourself. call a professional". The problem is that to get it back into working order, you need to wind that spring back up. This is generally done with two steel rods. If you lose your grip while winding the spring up, you can do serious damage to yourself.
So, my advice would be to call a garage door guy.
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