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Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
This is my own narrative and like all personal narratives, it takes its shape from experience, memory, and insight.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
I understood that people who didn’t develop themselves through their creativity would end up redirecting that energy adversely.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
Having come to realize how much I didn’t understand when I needed to understand love, I now feel compelled to shorten the years of ridiculous, unnecessary trouble in others.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
I later understood that Apple’s marketing agency had promoted the concept of a massive genius figurehead for the company. Big wink to Regis McKenna.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs

You can tell a lot about a culture’s values by how they treat particular segments of their populations. In this case, it was how they treated the young women who carried and gave birth to the babies and the future of the whole nation.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
Sometimes he did not return my calls and other times he called constantly. And those mixed messages played havoc with my instincts.
Chrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
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