My in-laws tried to quietly push my father out of my wedding because he’s a garbage collector.

They said it was for “appearances.” I was shaking with anger—until my dad calmly asked for the microphone. After what he said, the room was never the same.

My name is Anna. The man who raised me works for the city.
My father, Joe, has been a sanitation worker my entire life. My mother died when I was three, and …

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