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between december 10, 2003 and june 16, 2004 (approximately 6 months) metro rider logged 598 hours and 28 minutes of metro riding.

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metro rider rides the metro, she goes from anywhere to anywhere. at the end she doesn’t want to come up, so she continues.

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i didn’t plan 2 b a metro rider. it’s just that on that night when i was taking the metro and my stop came up, i couldn’t make myself get up and walk out the door. i made a plan 2 get out at the next stop, maybe go see a movie, yet when the next stop came, i just let it go on by, …then I thought, to the library, read some magazines; that didn’t happen either. i didn’t want 2 b anywhere. i spent the whole night riding the metro, riding till the end of the line, getting off, turning around and riding again. i began to feel paranoid, afraid people would know i was a fake, that i wasn’t really going anywhere, and then i began 2 wonder if there were other people like me, other metro-riders…

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every time i go down i take a transfer and every time i surface i take another transfer. this way i can calculate how long i have been riding: the time stamped on the “surfacing” transfer minus the time stamped on the “going down” transfer gives me the duration. i keep all the transfers and log all the details such as the date, the two letters stamped just before the time, the station i went down in, the time i went down, the station i surfaced in, the time i surfaced, and the duration of riding.

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