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Celese would be married with children of her

own before we’d have enough. But that night,

as I took our garbage out to throw it into the

dumpster, I saw something that gave me an

idea. There, right on top, was a soup can. I

found an old step stool and stood on it while I

carefully sorted through the garbage. By the

time I finished I had 32 more labels.

When I brought them into our apartment,

Donna mentioned that there were other

apartment buildings that each had a dumpster.

Grabbing my step stool, I went from one to the

next, like a racoon rummaging for food. By the

end of the night I had collected dozens of

labels. Each night after that, as soon as I

arrived home from school and work, I went

label hunting.

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