Steve Jobs' last words: Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow

In a moving eulogy for the brother she first met at age 25, Steve Jobs' sister recounted his last words, in caps as she wrote it: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. Jobs was given up for adoption as a baby and didn't meet his biological sister, the successful novelist Mona Simpson, until they were adults, but they became close. Simpson was at Jobs' deathbed where she observed him breathing hard shortly before he died. "It became severe, deliberate, purposeful. I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before," she said in her eulogy on October 16 at Stanford University, which was just published by the New York Times. "This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it." Before recalling his last moments, Simpson told the story of their loving relationship ever since as a struggling writer she got a phone call from a lawyer informing her that she had a long-lost brother who was rich and famous. She had guessed it was John Travolta. "When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif," Simpson said. "We took a long walk — something, it happened, that we both liked to do. I don’t remember much of what we said that first day, only that he felt like someone I’d pick to be a friend. He explained that he worked in computers." In contrast to the more common portrayals of Jobs as a driven, sometimes unkind man who didn't tolerate less than brilliant colleagues, Simpson spoke about his softer side that few knew, the family man who was "a physical dad." "When (son) Reed was born, he began gushing and never stopped," she said. "Steve was like a girl in the amount of time he spent talking about love," Simpson told those at the memorial service at Stanford. "Love was his supreme virtue, his god of gods. He tracked and worried about the romantic lives of the people working with him. Whenever he saw a man he thought a woman might find dashing, he called out, 'Hey are you single? Do you wanna come to dinner with my sister?'" "I remember when he phoned the day he met Laurene. 'There’s this beautiful woman and she’s really smart and she has this dog and I’m going to marry her.'" - HS, GMA News