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Jan 26, 2012
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Michael Shannon did it for love.

Mr. Shannon, a 40-year-old tea merchant from Queens, stood on a mostly empty platform in the Nassau Avenue subway station in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one recent Friday night, a black fox fur stole draped over his shoulders and a black felt fedora atop his great mane of hair.

He tossed pennies, 11 of them in succession, into a…

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