This time, however, the story had a happy ending, or at least a climactic, optimistic victory.

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The story had a happy ending but it was scary.

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The story does not have a happy ending.

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And Hollywood is the fabled fairytale factory - perhaps this is one story with a happy ending.

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If you have ever seen newsreels of Berlin in ruins in 1945, you know that the story of the Third Reich did not have a happy ending, even for Aryans.

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Interestingly, the story is based on an actual occurrence and has a happy ending with the formation of a loving family.

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So that the next person who was given the same chilling diagnosis could hopefully find my story and rest assured that a happy ending was indeed possible.

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"Michael Collins" is a story about the birth of a nation, and there is no happy ending.

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I'm happy to say that this particular story has a positive ending, as I turned the phone over to see if I would need to call BlackBerry HQ in a panic.

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And yet the Reagan story contains no simple formula that Mr Obama can copy to be sure of an equally happy ending to his own presidential adventure.

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