After rushing to her brother's bedside, after he requested her presence, Ms Simpson listened to her brother as he lay surrounded by his family, still conscious. She told the New York Times "His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us".
After his final night on earth Steve Jobs began to slip away. "His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude. He seemed to be climbing." Mona revealed that his last words "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow" had been spoken hours earlier that morning and were "monosyllables, repeated three times."
"Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them."
"Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow" the perfect summary of an amazing journey through life.
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