The reason Gramps cried when he carried Graminto the house was that there, in the center of thebedroom, stood his own parents‘ bed-the bed thatGramps and each of his brothers had been born in, the bed his parents had always slept in. This waswhere his father and brothers had disappeared toduring the wedding supper. They had been movingthe bed into Gram and Gramps‘s new house. At thefoot of the bed, wiggling and slurping, was Sadie, Gramps‘s old beagle dog.