![]() But dwindling savings quickly result in an eviction from their apartment. Despite the financial risk, Chris decides to go for it, frantically juggling his schedule to get Christopher to and from day care each day. She’s barely out the door when Chris learns he’s been offered the coveted internship. Then Linda leaves Chris (and their son) for a job in New York. Linda’s bitterness and negativity may wear on Chris, but they can’t dampen the weary salesman’s delight in his son. Predictably, she doesn’t think much of his latest brainstorm: securing an internship at the stock brokerage firm Dean Witter. ![]() Linda pulls double shifts to stay within striking distance of solvency, all the while chastising Chris for his failure to provide. But his chosen vocation, peddling expensive bone-density scanners that most physicians don’t want, has left him and those he loves hovering on the brink of disaster.ĭay after unsuccessful day, Chris comes home to his dispirited girlfriend, Linda, and their 5-year-old son, Christopher. When I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.” So vows Chris Gardner, an earnest salesman and father desperately struggling to make ends meet on the hard streets of San Francisco in the early 1980s. ![]() “I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old.
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