Dr. Trash knows his treasure from the detritus that surrounds it. Some of the treasure he seeks lines his pockets, materialized in the thousands of dollars worth of text books, technology, and clothes, that he salvages every year when students move out of a large university on the east coast of the United States. However, other treasures that he inadvertently finds in the dumpsters and rubbish bins he meticulously mines allow him to speculate on lives of others and to articulate who he is and wishes to be.

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