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    Novelty was not Steve’s highest value. Beauty was.

    His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: “Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

    Steve always aspired to make beautiful later.

    He was willing to be misunderstood.

    Steve was like a girl in the amount of time he spent talking about love. Love was his supreme virtue, his god of gods. 

    He treasured happiness.

    Steve’s final words, hours earlier, 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.

    Steve’s final words were:

    OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

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