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Liz Gumbinner

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21. Oh my God.

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By Liz Gumbinner
| I’m Walking Here
One day, you have a baby. You never knew whether you wanted one for sure, and somehow, here you are. The day you get home from the hospital, you’ll stare at this little blobby, squishy, days-old thing, which seems entirely made of love and tears and breastmilk and id. You won’t have the slightest idea what to do with her, so you put her in a co-sleeper and drag it around the apartment with you from room to room. Can you even leave her alone? In a room by herself? Is that allowed?
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When someone you love dies, they're not gone.

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By Liz Gumbinner
| I’m Walking Here
I love photos of the wrinkles and the hard-earned grey hairs that mark a long life well-spent. But there’s something magical about old photos. They’re actual time machines, giving us the ability to go to the past and see someone else’s future. We can look at a person and know what their impact on us will turn out to be in ten or twenty or 75 years. Even if that person staring straight back at us doesn’t know it themselves yet.
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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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