The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Page #3

these old sticks for you.

get you walkin'.

No matter the season, supper

was served promptly at 5:30.

Mol-asses...

-Molasses.

Molasses.

I learned to read

when I was five.

My grandfather was

a dresser for a famous actor.

He brought home every

play for me to read.

"Kind keepers of my

weak decaying age

let dying Mortimer

here rest himself.

Even like a man new

haled from the rack.

So fare my limbs with

long imprisonment.

And these gray locks,

the pursuivants of death,

argue the end of

Edmund Mortimer."

You thought I was

plain ignorant, didn't you?

The actor my grandfather worked

for was John Wilkes Booth.

He killed Abraham Lincoln.

You never know

what's coming for you.

On saturday nights, momma

would make me go to church.

Benjamin!

Amen!

What can I do for you, sister?

Her parts are all

twisted up inside,

she can't have little children.

Lord, if you could see clear

to forgive this woman her sins

so she can bear

the fruit of the womb.

Out damnable affliction!

Praise God!

Hallelujah!

And what's this old

man's irrediction?

He's got the devil on his back,

trying to ride him into

the grave before his time.

Out, Zebuchar!

Out, Beelzebub!

How old are you?

Seven, but I look a lot older.

God bless you.

He's seven!

Now, this is a man with

optimism in his heart!

Belief in his soul!

We are all children

in the eyes of God!

We are gonna get you

out of that chair.

And we're gonna have you walk.

-It's all right.

In the name of God's glory,

rise up!

Come on!

Come on, man!

Now God is gonna see you

the rest of the way.

He's gonna see this

little old man walk

without the use of

a crutch or a cane.

He's gonna see that you walk from

faith and divine inspiration alone!

Now walk.

Don't touch him!

Rise up, old man!

Rise up like Lazarus!

I said rise up!

Yes!

Say hallelujah!

Walk. Walk on.

Now, when I look back on it,

it was miraculous.

But you know the saying:

"The Lord giveth and

the Lord taketh away."

Praise be to the Lord

on the highest...!

There was so many birthdays.

So we wouldn't run out,

we would spare the candles.

You know I don't like birthdays

and I don't like cake.

And death was a common visitor.

People came and went.

You always knew

when someone left us.

There was a silence in the house.

It was a wonderful

place to grow up.

I was with people who had shed all

the inconsequences of earlier life.

Left wondering

about the weather,

the temperature of a bath,

the light at the end of the day.

For everyone that died, someone

would come to take their place.

I've been married five times.

My first wife and I are captured

by neighbor tribe of cannibals.

We escaped across the river.

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