Mirrored database in Disconnected/In Recovery state

I am running Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 database server I have a mirrored database that shows in the following state 'databasename (Principal, Disconnected/In Recovery)'. When I look at the mirror server is shows in the same state 'databasename (mirror, Disconnected/In
Recovery)'. I am not able to do anything with either DB, I cannot break the mirror, I can't take it offline, I cannot delete it. This is a Dev Database so if need be I could destroy it and re-create. But I would like to figure out what the issue is and get
it working again in case I was to have this problem in production.
Thanks for any Help!

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