My Classmates Mocked Me for Being a Garbage Collector’s Son—On Graduation Day, I Said One Sentence They’ll Never Forget My name is Ethan Miller. I’m 18 years old. And for as long as I can remember, my life has smelled like diesel, bleach, and the inside of a garbage truck. My mom used to be a nursing student. She had a husband. She had plans. She had a future—until my dad fell at a construction site. After that, everything changed. To the neighborhood, she became “the trash lady.” And at school,