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"No," he said.

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 did. For a few perfect years, they were the same age: thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine. He looked thirty-seven; she looked thirty-seven. They danced in the kitchen to old jazz records. They planted a garden. They adopted a stray dog named Mississippi. For the first time in his life, Benjamin felt normal. "No," he said

"Excuse me," he said. "Do I know you?"

"Please," Thomas said, handing over the bundle. "Take him. There's money. Enough for a lifetime." His voice was high and sweet, like a boy's

"We have a boy," the social worker said. "About seven years old. He doesn't speak much. But he keeps drawing a picture of a house on Elysian Fields Avenue. And he keeps spelling the word 'Mississippi' over and over."

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.