title: The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps
author: Norm LeMay
description: The book <i>The Garbageman's Guide to Life: How to Get Out of the Dumps </i> offers a practical yet impressive message - get rid of the trash that gets in the way of your relationships, your work and your dreams. As a psychotherapist, I feel their book offers some sound advice. ---Amy Morin, LCSW - college professor, published author, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker
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   _Twelve Years Ago_
  
    
  
  THE BOMB-MAKER had his workshop in Manshiet Nasser, a vast slum that was home
  to almost half a million people. The locals called it Garbage City because the
  men and women who made their home there collected trash from the rest of Cairo
  and brought it back to be sorted, in the hope that they might find pieces to
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  Ezbet Bekhit was a typical neighbourhood of Garbage