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Living in the Berkeley area, I rarely have occasion to take the bus. But growing up in New York, I took the bus all the time,

and I preferred it at night. During the day the bus and the outside world

were continuous. People were rushing from one thing to the next, very much in work mode,

or just wrapped up in daily life. But at night the bus lit from within like a

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