Insert new line in text only div

I'm working with a CMS that allows only text in a certain div (HTML , like <br>, is parsed to <br>). It is fine with Unicode / HTML codes (e.g. & would generate & and @ would generate @) but it will seemingly not allow a new line / carriage return. How can I put a <br> in the div, without using HTML?

I've tried:

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 - https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
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 - New line in text area
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 - New line in text area
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 or 
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 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
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 or 
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 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Here is a fiddle with the same issue (and HTML structure as output by CMS) > https://jsfiddle.net/w3p4wgcc/ ...Is it just not possible?