Sasha looked at the windowpane, rinsed with rain, smearing lights in the falling dark.

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Out there alone with him, in the dark, with snow falling all around them, she might have said something she would have regretted.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

Their discovery was mostly chance (few were seen in the act of falling) but their dark forms mean they will have caught the eye of meteorite hunters who scour desert sands and polar ice fields for rare rocks that can trade for tens of thousands of dollars.

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