From the memoirs of Chris Brennan, the first woman of Steve Jobs (Part 1)

Contradictory personality Jobs - one of the most interesting topics that can be discussed for a long time. He was a talented businessman, a visionary, but his character and demeanor left much to be desired.

The best thing about Jobs can tell the people who knew him in real life. Especially interesting is the period of formation of the personality of Steve - his adolescence and youth, because that's when a man lays down his character. And this new book of memoirs of Chris Brennan - the first girlfriend of Steve Jobs has a great value. She knew a great iCEO when he had just started his career in business and was an eccentric young man who did not know a great success.

New York Post published an exclusive excerpt from the book Brennan and we translated it for you on the Russian language and is divided up into several parts. Today - the first part of an exciting passage from a book by Chris Brennan. Make it your own, it will be interesting!

Chris Brennan first met Steve Jobs in 1972, when they were both students of the Graduate School of Homestead city of Cupertino. The next 5 years, they have maintained occasional relations, and at one time lived with Daniel Kottke, who in 1977 was one of the first newly created Apple. Relationship between Jobs and Brennan stopped at the end of 1977, after Chris pregnant by Jobs. Later, she had a daughter, Lisa, and to make ends meet, she had to work as a waitress.

At the same time, Steve long denied that he was the biological father of Lisa, despite the fact that in 1979 passed a special test that confirmed his paternity. Then Jobs still began to pay child support $ 500 a month, and in an interview with Time magazine, he said: "28% of the US male population could be fathers."

Now, Brennan works as a graphic designer and lives in Monterey, California. Lisa received a journalism degree at Harvard.

Jobs and his daughter Lisa during Halloween. 1986

Steve said that he often thought of himself in his past life, in which he was a pilot in World War II. As he drove, he felt as if the steering wheel to pull back as during take-off in an airplane. It is rather curious, because his feelings were really sincere.

While he loved the music of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Count Basie (known jazz performers - Approx. ed.) and one of the first parties to Apple, he even danced to it, as if the yard were the forties. Steve were inherent in American ingenuity and wit, he had a fairly simple notions of good and evil. But it turned out that he was not the pilot of the plane - no, it was something completely different. In 1977 he flew not on the plane and on the rocket, which broke through the atmosphere.

Around the same time, Steve, I'm Daniel (Kottke) moved into a rented house in Cupertino, near the Presidio Drive - just about Apple's first office. It was a ranch with four bedrooms. Steve confessed to me that did not want to stay in it one-on-one with me, so join us and moved to Kottke.

Our relationship at that time were terribly unstable: we rushed from one extreme to another, from the hot passion in a terrible boredom. When I suggested to Steve disperse, he admitted that he just could not bring myself to for a long time to say goodbye to me. But then we do not split completely. However, Steve did not want us to live in one room and create the appearance of relationships - he proposed to solve the problem of living together later. At first, I was hurt, but then think about it, I agreed that this was the best decision for both of us.

Steve moved to the bedroom in front of the house. It was just like him, he has always tried to be ahead of everyone, like a ship's captain. Steve has always defended his high position. I moved to another room knowing that his bedroom was worse than mine. Daniel settled in the living room and slept on the floor next to the piano. This was a very strange charm.

But a month later, Steve literally picked me up and brought all my stuff in my bedroom, and he moved into my room. He realized that my room was better than the one where he first lived. He did not care that I felt humiliated by the sudden move. Even after we changed rooms, we sometimes spent time together. 15 years later, when he was already married, Steve called me and thanked me for the time that we spent together. Then I found it quite strange act on his part, and I realized that men are... very different.

Steve and his wife Lauren in 2010

We recalled the various moments of our relationship. Basically, Steve recalled how terrible he became, when I began somewhat confusing. But he was right in saying that our lovemaking was sublime. Maybe Steve believed that love has its own laws, but why would talk about them in a telephone conversation after so many years ...

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