Characters
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Duran Longshaw
a conservative businessman and reluctant new rider
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Helina (Huh-LEE-nuh)
a sad single mother who lives in a shanty by the train stop and sells flowers to riders
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Rosie
Helina’s cheerful, playful daughter, age 5 to 8
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Mike
a white engineer who commutes with his lifelong friend, Melanie
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Melanie
a white secretary who commutes with (and secretly loves) her childhood friend, Mike
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Sam
an outgoing inventor
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Celia
a shy artist
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David
a Jewish songwriter who annoyingly hums while listening to music
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Sholeh (SHO-leh)
An Iranian-born economist who works at the World Bank
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Shanti
an Indian-born professional
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Peter Kim
An Applied Mathematics professor and ogling bachelor.
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Lorna Chang
a Chinese-born physicist
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Carla Lopez
a 40-something saucy, sexy, Mexican-born rider
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An
a saucy Vietmamese-born manicurist/cosmetologist
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Olivia
Latina friend of Carla and An
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Ranil
a computer geek from Sri Lanka
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Pierre
an openly gay rider
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José
a friendly Dominican-born rider
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Bea
a feisty retired rider
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Rudy
a homeless man who lives near the tracks
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Wanda
a homeless woman who lives near the tracks
