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Face tipped toward the sky and hands stretched upward as though she intends to catch every drop before it reaches the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer mother calls from the doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRiya promises she'll come inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEventually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe loves the way rain changes everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDust disappears. Leaves become impossibly green. Puddles appear where there were none. Water drums against rooftops, runs along streets, gathers in fields and ponds—and suddenly the entire world sounds different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Riya has noticed something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes there is too little rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes there is far too much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd she wants to know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer fascination began with a glass jar she placed outside to measure rainfall for a school project. 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