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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button begins in 1860 Connecticut and Maryland, and progresses until the 1920s.

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Summer 1860

Benjamin Button is born, as an old man who is 5 feet, 8 inches tall. He is named Methuselah, but is called Benjamin.

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Benjamin Is 5 Years Old

Benjamin is sent to kindergarten. He still looks like an old man, but he is only five years old. He has the mind and appearance of an old man.

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7 Years Later

Benjamin turns twelve, and his parents have gotten used to him being old. A few weeks later, he notices some wrinkles going away, his skin becoming healthier and firmer, and that his hair turned from white to iron-grey.

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Benjamin is Now 18

Benjamin applies to go to Yale. At registration, the staff turns him down, because he looks like he is fifty years old. They think he is an imposter. The staff tell him to get out of town, and not to return.

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Benjamin turns twenty, and the family company is handed down to him. The company is called Roger Button & Co., Wholesale Hardware. He also starts attending parties and events. At one party, he meets a women named Hildegarde Moncrief. Hildegarde already has a child.

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Benjamin and Hildegarde get married in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The wholesale hardware business makes a lot of money, and almost doubles the family's fortune. Benjamin's dad retires.

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Benjamin starts becoming less attractive to Hildegarde than he was before, because he keeps becoming younger and is changing. Hildegarde's son, named Roscoe, turns 14 years old.

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Spring 1898

Benjamin didn't really like his home, and we wasn't happy when he was there. So, when the Spanish-American War broke out, he decided to join the army.

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When the war was over, Benjamin was slightly injured but didn't want to leave the army. He knew he had to because the business needed attention.

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Benjamin now looks like he is 30 years old, and hopes that when his actual age is the same as the age he looks, the growing younger will stop.

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1908-1910

As Benjamin becomes younger, he starts doing other hobbies. He becomes good at golf and dancing. He enjoys doing this, and feels that his son Roscoe, who graduated from Harvard, could have the business handed down to him.

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Appearance Age: 20

Benjamin enrolls himself at Harvard as a freshman. He helped win football games, and he was loved around campus. But his third year, he isn't able to make the football team, because he was becoming shorter, and losing weight.

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Roscoe gets married, and Benjamin looks like he is about seventeen. He doesn't have many people in his life, and hangs out with a few fifteen year old boys on his street. Roscoe and Benjamin get into a fight, because Roscoe is embarrassed that his dad looks younger than he is, and makes Benjamin call him 'uncle'.

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Benjamin is called back to the army, but doesn't like it as much. He looks like he is sixteen, so people are treating him like he is sixteen and doesn't enjoy that.

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Roscoe's first child is born, and Benjamin looks like he is ten years old. A few years later, Roscoe's child is old enough to play with Benjamin.

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Actual Age: Around 75

Roscoe takes his son and Benjamin to kindergarten on the same day. A year later, Roscoe's son goes to first grade, and Benjamin stays in kindergarten. Benjamin got upset because everyone in kindergarten was bigger than him, as he grew younger. He was then taken out of kindergarten.

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Benjamin keeps growing younger, eventually not being able to talk. He sleeps in a crib and doesn't remember many things. Things keep fading from his memory, and eventually doesn't remember anything.