About 100 years of Doris Gibson
I spent two weeks trying to write about a thousand times, hundreds of stories and dozens of phrases from the grandmother of Diana and Drusilla, my relationship with her was once very close and family heard from her early age. I remember a day like yesterday that my dad was stationed in the streets of San Isidro when we saw a woman leaving a store with four or five boys blondes about my age, between 5 and 10 years. My dad turned to my mom and said, "is Doris Gibson with the children of Enrique", then I heard new words such as "deportation" "Journalism" and "military", all nearly in a whisper.
known many years later in a classroom at the University of Lima, a tall blonde girl who shared the language course and I think statistics. Studying at home we discovered that our parents had shared folder on the school, Diana took me to lunch where Doris several times, then when he was not in Lima, Doris called me and invited me to lunch at the Swiss home Diagonal or La Pizzeria, many people came to his table and approached to say hello, the conversation was fascinating, frequent laughter and delicious wine, Teresina, Robert and Percy are faces I remember in those tables.
must be why I was so hard to see his glasses and scarves without it. Yesterday, two weeks later, I wanted to write this post and looked on Doris, the daughter of the poet, the founder of the magazine Caretas, the woman who was ahead of its time, the defender of democracy and press freedom, the Muse of painter, lover, mother, grandmother were in the articles of those who knew her, of whom admired her from afar and those who had wanted to be adopted by her half-smile inquisitive.
had already decided to write in the first person from the inside, I found, thanks to the magic of the Internet, an article by Jimena Pinilla, "Maria Jimena" for childhood friends, "Sister Maria Jimena Toño" for me. The last time I spoke with her was by the publication of his book, promised to go to the program if he felt better, "depends on how I go this week," he said, a few days gave me a phone interview, because I laughed Jim could not tell, I said on air "for some time that no one tells me Maria Jimena was young and talented, but sweet and sincere as a child, I read many articles from it in those days. Shortly after I learned of his death and wept in silence, without sharing or offer condolences, said goodbye to her from within.
article on Doris last night I had on screen was Jimena, advancing to the World Blue Lucho Repetto at Casa O'Higgins, named Jim and his note for El Comercio ("The Doris Gibson Blue World"), I was incredible how are you two women who met at different times in my life came together a humid night and left me not knowing how to write what they did, their time and tasks, so different and so alike, so important and so absent today.
MPC
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