premise: We looked everywhere . I began mentally retracing my steps , and the last time I remembered seeing him for sure was at the grocery store a few hours earlier . Uh - oh . I called the store , but they denied having found any raggedy bears . I was n't going to take no for an answer , so we drove back to the store - still no luck . Why did we look everywhere ?
hypothesis: Because I began mentally retracing my steps .