<P> After Tuck's death, Amanda and Dawson meet with Tuck's lawyer and learn that they are to scatter Tuck's ashes at a cottage he owned with his wife . They have lunch and discuss their plans, during which Amanda learns that Dawson knew she had continued to try to visit him in prison . Later, Dawson and Amanda spend a passionate night together . The following day, after Amanda gets a phone call, Amanda decides to return to her family and her strained marriage, to meet her family commitments . </P> <P> When Amanda goes home, Dawson remains at Tuck's to restore the garden . He is then informed by his deceased cousin Bobbie's wife that his young son and Dawson's nephew Aaron Cole has been hanging around with Tommy Cole lately . Except for Aaron, Tommy, and a few of Dawson's cousins, most of the Cole family had left the property . Dawson arrived at the property to pick up Aaron, and when Tommy Cole confronts him, Dawson coldly tells his father that he would always be a weakling and a coward . Meanwhile, Amanda later plans to split up with her husband, who had been drinking heavily since the death of their daughter Bea, and she leaves Dawson a voicemail on his phone expressing her love . </P> <P> After she left the voicemail, she receives a call from which she learns that her son had been in an accident and needs a heart transplant . Having lost her daughter already, she feels miserable on hearing this news . Soon her son gets a heart transplant surgery donor . The next morning when she wakes up, she sees Dawson sitting by her side watching her sleep, though he was not actually there . Her mother arrives at the house and is informed that Dawson was attacked by his father and cousins . Though he managed to trick his cousin Abee into shooting Ted in the leg with his Glock and knocked Abee unconscious with a crowbar, Dawson was shot in the chest by his father when he was calling the sheriff . Even though Dawson's father and cousins were later arrested, Dawson died shortly thereafter of his gunshot wound . Devastated with grief over the loss of Dawson, Amanda attends his funeral along with Aaron Cole and his mother . </P> <P> One year later, she receives a call from her son, who finds out that the name of the donor whose heart he received was Dawson Cole . She later visits Tuck's house and finds a letter for her written by Dawson in which he says that he understands that she has her commitments and she wants to keep them and he could only love her more for that . She walks in the garden, which has been restored by Dawson, and realizes that he had given her the best of himself . </P>

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