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Liz Gumbinner

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Hello from the other side

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By Liz Gumbinner
| I’m Walking Here
It’s been one month. Curled up on the sofa in Brooklyn yesterday under a blanket, I alternated between grading projects and organizing my phone — deleting spam, updating apps, trying to figuring out what was triggering all those annoying badge app icon numbers; you know, the little 2 or 3 or 16,240 that torments you from a little red circle.
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His Legacy Era

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By Liz Gumbinner
| I’m Walking Here
You hear about people who are dying and how they appear to “wait” for someone special to arrive before they feel they can go. This would be one of those cases. Paul S. Gumbinner died peacefully on Friday, April 3, at home in Manhattan with his son Jeff, his daughter Liz, and his wife Amye of 44 years who he still referred to as “my beautiful bride.” I can’t sum him up in a few paragraphs, so forgive this messy pastiche of memories.
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His Paris era

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By Liz Gumbinner
| I’m Walking Here
Day One The first thing I noticed when I stepped into the apartment, besides my dad in a hospital bed against the living room wall where the couch used to be, were the paper signs taped around the walls alongside the bed. DNR was written fat red marker in my stepmother’s handwriting. If you’ve ever wondered what the opposite of a welcome mat might be, I’d go with this.
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