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She died in 2010, at the age of ninety, holding a blue ribbon in her hand. The nurses said she was smiling. And somewhere, in the space between the ticks of a broken clock, a boy who was once an old man, and an old woman who was once a girl, finally met in the middle—and stayed there.

Benjamin was twenty-six when he returned to New Orleans. He looked thirty. His hair was dark brown now, his face smooth, his body lean from years of hauling lines and fighting river currents. Queenie, now gray and frail, hugged him at the door and wept. "You're beautiful," she said. "My ugly little baby. You're beautiful."

"You don't look like a boy. You look like my grandpa, but sadder."

He looked up. "Daisy," he said. His voice was high and sweet, like a boy's. "I spelled Mississippi." The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -2008- HDRi...

They talked for three hours. She told him about Paris, about dancing until her feet bled, about a man named Walter who had proposed and then left her for a cellist. He told her about the tugboat, the dolphins, Elizabeth Abbott. He did not tell her who he was. Not yet.

At seventeen, Benjamin looked forty. He had grown taller—or rather, his spine had straightened—and his hair was now a distinguished salt-and-pepper. He could walk without a cane, though his knees still ached. Queenie, who had raised him as her own, finally allowed him to leave the boarding house for work.

"You should leave," Daisy said one morning. Her voice was calm, but her hands were shaking. "Not because I don't love you. Because I do. And I cannot watch you become a child while I become a crone." She died in 2010, at the age of

She turned. Her eyes, still the color of honey, scanned his face. "I don't think so," she said. "But you look familiar. Like a dream I once had."

1918–2003 "We are born at different doors."

Thomas Button, a wealthy button manufacturer, paced outside the bedroom as his wife Caroline screamed. The doctor emerged, pale as bone. "Mr. Button," he said, "you have a child. But… he is not like other children." Benjamin was twenty-six when he returned to New Orleans

Daisy received a phone call in 1987. She was sixty-seven years old, a widow (she had married a kind, boring accountant named Robert, who had died of a heart attack in 1984), living alone in a small apartment above her dance studio. The call was from Child Protective Services.

As the hands spun counterclockwise, Gateau whispered, "I made it so the boys who died might live again. So they might come home, plow their fields, marry, have children." No one had the heart to fix it. And so time, in New Orleans at least, seemed to flow the wrong way.