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My Classmates Mocked Me for Being a Garbage Collector’s Son – on Graduation Day, I Said Something They’ll Never Forget

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degree and a kid.”

So she put on a reflective vest, climbed onto the back of a truck, and became “the trash lady.” Which made me “trash lady’s kid.” That name stuck. In elementary school, kids would wrinkle their noses when I sat down.

“You smell like the garbage truck,” they’d say.

By middle school, it was routine.

Kids would wrinkle their noses when continue reading …

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