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Article posted: 1/22/2013 7:19 PM

Woman miraculously survives getting hit by boulder

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A bystander photographs a 12-by-9-foot boulder as it rests in the master bedroom of a home in St. George, Utah.

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A southern Utah woman is badly injured but grateful to be alive after a boulder the size of a small car broke free from a cliff above her house, crashed through her bedroom wall, and hit her like a “giant fist” while she slept, her husband said Tuesday.