For A Little More Than A Day

Erin Sullivan: LAND O'LAKES — She waited five hours at the Polk County Jail to see the man she loved, but a few hours meant nothing compared with the time without him; two years, 78 days, going on 79 as the clock passed midnight. At 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, he was there and it was done. For good.



"Come on," Kathleen Linn, 51, said to her fiance, Clayton Fivecoat, 69. "We're going home."



They drove an hour and a half. He talked about wanting a steak but wasn't hungry when they got there. He hugged his dog and slept in his bed. For little more than a day, Fivecoat was free.



Then he died.