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Benjamin Button Born
Actual Age: Newborn
Looks Like: 70 "On the September morning consecrated to the enormous event he arose nervously at six o'clock...to determine whether the darkness of the night had born new life in its bosom." (60) -
Benjamin Goes To Kintergarden
Actual Age: 5
Looks Like: 65 "When he was five he was sent to Kintergarden." (68) -
Benjamin Expelled From Yale
Actual Age: 18
Looks Like: 52 "'Get out,' he said. 'Get out of college and get out of town. You are a dangerous lunatic." (70) -
Benjamin Gets Married
Actual Age: 20
Looks Like: 50 "When, six months later, the engagment of Miss Hildegarde Moncrief to Mr. Benjamin Button was made known." (73) -
Benjamin Begins Work For Father's Company
Actual Age: 20
Looks Like: 50 "In 1880 Benjamin Button was twenty years old, and he signalized his birthday by going to work for his father in Roger Button & Co., Wholesale Hardware." (71) -
Benjamin's Son (Roscoe) Born
Actual Age: 24
Looks Like: 46 "...with a son, Roscoe, fourteen years old." (75) -
Benjamin's Father Retires
Actual Age: 35
Looks Like: 35 "In the fifteen years between Benjamin's marraige and his father's retirement in 1895, the family fortune doubled--and this was due largely to the younger member of the firm." (74) -
Benjamin Joins Army
Actual Age: 38
Looks Like: 32 "At the outbreak of the Spanish American war in 1898, his home had so little charm to him that he decided to join the army." (75) -
Benjamin Enrolls At Harvard
Actual Age: 50
Looks Like: 20 "He entered himself as a freshman at Harvard University in Cambridge...he did not mention that his son had graduated from the same institution ten years earlier." (78) -
Benjamin's Grandson Born
Actual Age: 60
Looks Like: 10 "In 1920 Roscoe Button's first child was born." (81) -
Benjamin "Dies"
Actual Age: 70
Looks Like: 0 "Then it was dark...and the warm sweet aroma of milk faded out altogether from his mind.