Of Bliss and Granted Wishes is a true story. To avoid retiring to a nursing home, Sam and Sophie Foster remodel their house and ask a family (mother, father, three children, and a dog ) to move in with them. Filled with humor, rich with compassion, undying love, and a determined refusal to give in to decrepitude and Sam's loss of memory, their story is proof that, in the words of Ireland's great poet, Thomas Moore, "the heart that has truly loved never forgets."