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As Dubai Metro turns 17, so does a lifetime of memories

I was twelve, the first time I tapped a Nol card at Dubai Airport Freezone metro station, backpack heavier than it needed to be, uniform still creased from my mother's iron, and I didn’t realize I was boarding not just a train, but the next fourteen years of my life.

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