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.By Liz Goodwin
National Affairs Reporter
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In an interview with "60 Minutes" on Sunday evening, Steve Jobs'
biographer Walter Isaacson revealed that the Apple founder actually
did meet his biological father face-to-face once--even though neither
man realized it at the time.
The intensely private Jobs sought out his biological mother and sister
in the mid 1980s, saying that he felt something was missing from his
life. He became very close with his biological sister, the novelist
Mona Simpson. But he decided he didn't want to meet his father,
Abdulfattah Jandali, who had left his mother when Mona was still
young. (The couple gave Jobs up for adoption when they were both in
graduate school.)
"I learned a little bit about him, and I didn't like what I learned,"
Jobs says in new audio recordings released by Isaacson. "I asked her
to not tell him that we'd ever met and not tell him anything about
me."
But it turns out they had already met, even though neither man
realized it. When Mona Simpson tracked down Jandali, he told her about
a restaurant he used to manage in Silicon Valley that was very
popular. "Everybody used to come there, even Steve Jobs used to come
there," he told her. "He was a great tipper." Simpson was shocked,
but didn't reveal that Jobs was Jandali's son.
"I remember meeting the owner who was from Syria, and it was most
certainly him, and I shook his hand and he shook my hand and that's
all," Jobs told Isaacson.
Jandali, now 80, said he sent Jobs' birthday emails after he found out
he was his father, and claims that one time he received a response
that just said "Thank you."
source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/steve-jobs-unusual-meeting-father-135624786.html
