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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？
HINTS:
Paul Reinhold Jobs
Coast Guard
World War II
Germantown
Wisconsin
Midwest
USS General M.C. Meigs
General Patton
San Francisco
James Dean
Clara Hagopian
Armenian
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When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They had arrived in San Francisco, where their ship was decommissioned, and Paul bet that he would find himself a wife within two weeks. He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean. But it wasn’t his looks that got him a date with Clara Hagopian, a sweet-humored daughter of Armenian immigrants. It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening. Ten days later, in March 1946, Paul got engaged to Clara and won his wager. It would turn out to be a happy marriage, one that lasted until death parted them more than 40 years later.
Paul Reinhold Jobs had been raised on a dairy farm in Germantown, Wisconsin. Even though his father was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, Paul ended up with a gentle and calm disposition under his leathery exterior. After dropping out of high school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until, at age 19, he joined the Coast Guard, even though he didn't know how to swim. He was deployed on the USS General M.C. Meigs and spent much of the war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor trouble and never rose above the rank of seaman.
第二次世界大战后，保罗乔布斯从海岸警卫队退伍时，与他的队员们打了一个赌。他们到达旧金山，在这里，他们的舰船退役了，保罗打赌说他要在两周之内给自己找一个妻子。他是个肌肉发达、有着文身的引擎机械师，6英尺高，长相酷似詹姆斯迪恩。他约到了克拉拉哈戈皮安，一个出身亚美尼亚移民家庭的甜美风趣的女孩子。女孩看上的并不是他的容貌，而是他和他的朋友们可以使用一辆轿车，这是她当晚原计划的出行对象们做不到的。10天以后，1946年3月，保罗与克拉拉订婚，同时也赢得了他的赌注。事实证明，这是一段幸福的婚姻，两人厮守了40多年，直到死亡将他们分开。
保罗莱茵霍尔德乔布斯在威斯康星州日耳曼敦的一家奶牛场长大。尽管父亲是个酒鬼，有时候还会虐待他，但在保罗粗犷的外表下还是有着一颗温柔宁静的心。高中退学后，他穿梭于中西部地区，做着机械师的工作，直到19岁那年加入海岸警卫队——虽然他并不会游泳。他被安排在美国海军的梅格斯号运兵船上，战争中的大多数时间都在为巴顿将军向意大利运输部队。他作为一名机械师和锅炉工的天赋为他赢得了不少奖励，但他偶尔也会惹上一点儿小麻烦，所以军衔从来没有高过一等兵。