Disaster in Paradise
The Landslides in Johnson’s Landing
Disaster in Paradise
Amanda Bath
Copyright © Amanda Bath, 2015
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Page 96 excerpt from The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Valliant. Copyright © 2010 John Valliant. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House company.
In memory of those we lost:
Petra Frehse, Valentine Webber,
Diana Webber, Rachel Webber
And a small black cat, Ozzie
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
—Robert Frost