The weather largely cooperated as eclipse watchers were awarded with a heavenly event as clouds parted and sun and moon merged
Ignas Barauskas almost missed it.
He bought plane tickets from his home in Lithuania to the United States about a month ago. After a series of flight delays, he landed in Dallas around midnight, ready for a once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse of the sun.
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