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For twelve years of school, the nickname \u201cgarbage collector\u2019s daughter\u201d was like an impossible-to-erase scar for Lira, a girl from Tondo, Manila, who grew up without a father.<\/p>\n

Her father died before she was born; he left her with a thin mother, with calluses on her hands and the smell of sweat and dust: Aling Nena, a woman who collected trash along the train tracks and in the city\u2019s dumps to make ends meet with her daughter.<\/p>\n

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For twelve years of school, the nickname \u201cgarbage collector\u2019s daughter\u201d was like an impossible-to-erase scar for Lira, a girl from Tondo, Manila, who grew up without a father. Her father died before she was born; he left her with a thin mother, with calluses on her hands and the smell of sweat and dust: Aling…<\/p>\n

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