A Little History, Part 4

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They didn't live long in Bramwell, only a few years. Grandpa sold the place and moved his family back to eastern Idaho, not to Bloomington but to Preston, because it was a town. Probably he farmed there, too, though Mama never mentioned it.

Eventually, they moved to a bigger town, Salt Lake City. Grandpa got a job as a night watchman in a mattress factory, and Mama said it broke his heart. That's the way she saw it. Always counted it a sacrifice her dad made and said it was all for her, so she could have the advantages of a city.

That is what Mama told me.