28. Snuffles and the Doomed Ship

Thankfully Rachel was squared away, because January 1939 was filled with such bad news that I worried how Mim would manage. First off, they declared Amelia Earhart officially dead. Amelia and her copilot were flying over the Pacific in the last leg of an around-the-world journey in 1937. I think Mim gave up hope a few weeks after the disaster, but this announcement made everything sadly final. Then, on Friday the 13th, an enormous wave of bushfires devastated about nearly five million acres i...