The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Page #2

Come out white.

There are places for 'unwanted'

babies like these, Queenie.

No room for another

mouth to feed here.

The Nolan Foundation,

despite their good intentions,

thinks this place is a large

nuisance as it is. A baby...

You said he don't have long.

Queenie, some creatures

aren't meant to survive.

No, this baby here is a

miracle, that's for certain.

Just not the kind of miracle

one hopes to see.

Now listen! Listen up here!

We gonna have us a visitor

that's gonna be staying

with us for a little while.

My sister had a child, but she

couldn't see right by it. So...

He's known as...

Benjamin.

Benjamin...

He's not a well child,

so we're gonna have to

take good care of him.

I had ten children, there's

not a baby I can't care for.

Let me see him.

Oh, God in heaven, he looks

just like my ex husband.

Look, he's prematurely old.

Doctor Rose said he ain't got

much more time on this earth.

Join the club.

Oh, smile!

Hambert sends his

remembrances to you.

Are you right out of your mind?

I know you ain't got all the parts

it takes to make one of your own,

but this ain't yours to keep,

it may not even be human kind.

Mr Weathers, come back here!

Please.

"You never know

what's comin' for you."

It seemed I'd found a home.

Is any of this true?

You have such a lovely voice.

Mom, there's an ancient

streetcar token.

That clock just kept going,

year after year after year...

I didn't know I was a child.

-Same old crap every day.

I thought I was like

everyone else there.

An old man in a

twilight of his life.

Stop bangin' that fork. It's used

for eating, not for playin' with.

And use your napkin,

please Mr. Benjamin.

Queenie!

Hey, boy!

I always had a healthy curiosity.

What was up the street,

or around the next corner?

Benjamin! That is dangerous.

Come back over here!

Stay put, child!

I loved her very much.

She was my mother.

Momma... momma!

Some days I feel different

than the day before.

Everybody feels different about

themselves one way or another.

But we're all goin' the same way.

Just taking different roads

to get there, that's all.

You're on your own road,

Benjamin.

Momma, how much longer I got?

Just be thankful for

what you're given.

You already here longer

than you supposed to.

Some nights,

I'd have to sleep alone.

I didn't mind. I would listen

to the house breathing.

All those people sleeping.

I felt safe.

It was a place of great routine.

Every morning at 5:30

no matter the weather,

General Winslow, US army

retired, raised the flag.

Mrs Sybil Wagner, once an

opera singer of some note,

well, she sang Wagner.

Alright, c'mon.

We gotta put some life into

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