图：保罗·乔布斯和史蒂夫·乔布斯
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:
Arthur Schieble
Joanne
Abdulfattah
St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church
Green Bay
PhD
Mona
Jandali
Anywhere but Here
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Arthur Schieble died in August 1955, after the adoption was finalized. Just after Christmas that year, Joanne and Abdulfattah were married in St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Green Bay. He got his PhD in international politics the next year, and then they had another child, a girl named Mona. After she and Jandali divorced in 1962, Joanne embarked on a dreamy and peripatetic life that her daughter, who grew up to become the acclaimed novelist Mona Simpson, would capture in her book Anywhere but Here. Because Steve's adoption had been closed, it would be 20 years before they would all find each other.
Steve Jobs knew from an early age that he was adopted. "My parents were very open with me about that," he recalled. He had a vivid memory of sitting on the lawn of his house, when he was six or seven years old, telling the girl who lived across the street. "So does that mean your real parents didn't want you?" the girl asked. "Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying. And my parents said, 'No, you have to understand.' They were very serious and looked me straight in the eye. They said, 'We specifically picked you out.' Both of my parents said that and repeated it slowly for me. And they put an emphasis on every word in that sentence."
结果，亚瑟•席贝尔死于1955年8月，是领养程序结束后的几个星期。那年的圣诞节刚结束，乔安妮和阿卜杜勒法塔赫•钱德里就在格林贝的使徒圣菲利普天主教徒完婚了。第二年，钱德里拿到了国际政治学的博士学位，他们生了另一个孩子，女孩，名叫莫娜。1962年和钱德里离婚后，乔安妮过上了梦一般的游荡的生活，这些都被她女儿——后来成为杰出小说家的莫娜•辛普森——描绘在她的凄美小说《在别处》中。因为史蒂夫的领养程序是非常私密的，所以直到20年后，他们才得以相认。
史蒂夫•乔布斯很早就知道了自己是被领养的。“我的父母在这件事情上对我很坦率。”他回忆道。他记得很清楚，六七岁的时候，他坐在自家屋前的草地上，向住街对面的女孩讲述这件事情。“这是不是说明你的亲生父母不要你了”女孩问。“天呐，我当时就像被闪电击中了一样，”乔布斯这么说，“我跑回家，大声哭喊。我父母说：‘不是这样的，你要理解这件事情。’他们当时很严肃，直直地看着我的眼睛。他们说：‘我们是专门挑的你。’他们两人都这么说，并且放慢语速向我重复这句话。他们强调了这句话里的每一个字。”