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FALLING FROM THE SKY

GYMPIE CLOSE SHAVE

Tenika Lawther and her partner Matthew Gardner were eating ice cream with their five-month-old daughter Oceana in their kitchen in Gympie, Australia, when they heard a loud bang. “There was smoke and debris everywhere,” Lawther said. “We both just looked at each other and right above [Gardner’s] head and my daughter’s head was this hole in our roof.” They found that a 3cm (1in) chunk of silvery metal had smashed through their roof and hit their couch. If it had arrived moments earlier it is likely Oceana would have been killed, as

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