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| 妹妹的悼词写得真好, (这个是从小失散的那个亲生妹妹), 看得我掉了眼泪. 
 “即使是一名女性主义者, 终我一生我仍一直在等待一个可以让我爱也爱我的男人, 很久以来, 我曾以为这个男人是我一直在寻找的父亲, 而在我25岁那年, 我终于遇到了这个男人, 他, 是我的兄长.”
 
 背景介绍, Mona Simpson的父亲在她5岁时和她母亲离婚, 并从此在她生活中消失, 她长大后象Steve Jobs 雇佣私家侦探寻找生母一样, 雇佣私家侦探寻找自己的生父, 并后来跟他见了面. Steve Jobs也曾雇佣私家侦探寻找生父, 但是生父的某些作为显然没有让他们骄傲, Steve Jobs决定不认生父.
 
 Mona Simpson曾经的丈夫也是作家, 是大名鼎鼎的"SIMPSON"的作者. "SIMPSON"里面的Homer Simpson 的妈妈Mona Simpson 名字就出自他的太太. 后两人离婚.
 
 A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
 
 By MONA SIMPSON
 
 I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people.
 Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.
 By then, I lived in New York, where I was trying to write my first novel. I had a job at a small magazine in an office the size of a closet, with three other aspiring writers. When one day a lawyer called me — me, the middle-class girl from California who hassled the boss to buy us health insurance — and said his client was rich and famous and was my long-lost brother, the young editors went wild. This was 1985 and we worked at a cutting-edge literary magazine, but I’d fallen into the plot of a Dickens novel and really, we all loved those best. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James — someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying.
 When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif.
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 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/3 ... eUzpMnoHlcJ3cnbkWFw
 
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