[ WP ] Start with a tragedy - and then tell me how it is actually a happy ending .

Sam looked down at Jeremiah's fresh corpse lying in the tobacco field. 
 
 The hot sun beat down on the dead man's forehead, which had begun to burn and pinken. 
 
 He'd been a simple farmer, with two kids. His wife, Caroline, had been his sweetheart since he was a boy. They'd sit under an oak tree near the swamp and have picnics during grade school, braving the teases and taunts of their peers in the name of young, innocent love. 
 
 Now, he was dead and Caroline was still napping up at the big house. 
 
 Sam broke off in a sprint toward the bog, where a small canoe leaned against a tree -- which he would use to paddle down to the river and sail north. Tears streamed down his face. 
 
 He was a free man.
