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When the visit was over, she called Jobs surreptitiously from the pay phone at the restaurant
跟父親告別后，她偷偷用餐館的付費電話打給她哥哥，
and arranged to meet him at the Espresso Roma café in Berkeley.
安排在伯克利的羅馬咖啡廳見面。
Adding to the personal and family drama, he brought along Lisa,
像是嫌這個家庭的故事不夠豐富多彩，他居然把麗薩也帶來了。
now in grade school, who lived with her mother, Chrisann.
麗薩已經上小學了，跟她媽媽克里斯安生活在一起。
When they all arrived at the café, it was close to 10 p.m., and Simpson poured forth the tale.
他們到咖啡廳時，已經快晚上10點了，辛普森把故事一股腦兒地講了出來。
Jobs was understandably astonished when she mentioned the restaurant near San Jose.
當她提到圣何塞附近那家餐廳時，可想而知喬布斯大吃一驚。
He could recall being there and even meeting the man who was his biological father.
他還記得去過那兒甚至還見到了他的生父。
"It was amazing," he later said of the revelation.
“這真是神奇，”他后來談道，
"I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting the owner.
“我去過那家餐廳幾次，而且我記得見到了老板。
He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands."
他是敘利亞人。我們還握過手。”
Nevertheless Jobs still had no desire to see him.
盡管如此，喬布斯還是不想見他。
"I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it," he recalled.
“那時我已經很富有了，我不敢肯定他會不會來敲詐我或是去跟媒體說什么，”他回憶道，
"I asked Mona not to tell him about me."
“我讓莫娜別跟他談起我。”
She never did, but years later Jandali saw his relationship to Jobs mentioned online.
莫娜·辛普森從沒提過，但是多年以后錢德里在網上看到有人談到他和喬布斯的關系。
(A blogger noticed that Simpson had listed Jandali as her father in a reference book and figured out he must be Jobs's father as well.)
（一個博客注意到，辛普森在一本書里把錢德里列為她父親，據此猜到他一定也是喬布斯的父親。）
By then Jandali was married for a fourth time
當時錢德里已經第四次結婚，
and working as a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown Resort and Casino just west of Reno, Nevada.
在內華達州雷諾市西部的布姆頓俱樂部酒店擔任餐飲經理。
When he brought his new wife, Roscille, to visit Simpson in 2006, he raised the topic.
2006年，他帶著新任太太羅希利去看望辛普森時，提起了這個話題。
"What is this thing about Steve Jobs?" he asked.
“史蒂夫·喬布斯是怎么回事？ ”他問道。
She confirmed the story, but added that she thought Jobs had no interest in meeting him.
她證實了這個傳聞，但補充說她覺得喬布斯沒有興趣見他。
Jandali seemed to accept that.
錢德里看似接受了這一切。
"My father is thoughtful and a beautiful storyteller, but he is very, very passive," Simpson said. "He never contacted Steve."
“我的父親很能體諒人，他講起故事來是把好手，但他也是個特別特別被動的人，”辛普森說，“他也從未聯絡過史蒂夫。”
