On an ordinary weekday afternoon, the ebb and flow of Taipei Metro commuters on the Tamsui-Xinyi line unfolding as usual, little did the passengers getting on and off the last car realize some of them had unwittingly become "models" for a gray-headed artist's swift and detailed sketches.
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