I promise you, from now on, you will be my greatest pride. You won’t have to bow your head in the dumpster anymore, Mom. I’ll be the one to lift it up for both of us.”

The principal couldn’t say a word.

The students began to wipe their tears.

And in the back row, Aling Nena, the slim, dark-haired garbage collector, covered her mouth, weeping with silent happiness.

Since then, no one has ever called her “the garbage collector’s daughter” again.

Now, she is the inspiration of the entire school.

Her former classmates, the same ones who avoided her, approached her one by one to apologize and be her friend.