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Benjamin Button Born
Born at age 70; page 60
"Is this some kind of ghastly hospital joke?" -
Benjamin goes to kindergarten
Shortly afterward, he is kicked out; page 68
"The Rojer Buttons told their friends that they felt he was too young." -
Benjamin turns twelve
he discovers that he is aging backwards; page 68
"By the time he was twelve, his parents grew used to him." -
Period: to
Normal ungrowth
"Of the life of Benjamin Button between his twelfth and twenty-first year I intend to say little. Suffice to say they were years of normal ungrowth."; page 69 -
Benjamin Button thrown out of Yale
They didn't believe he was 18. pge 70
"'The idea!' he shouted. 'A man of your age trying to enter here as a freshman.'" -
Benjamin is 20
he applies for a job at Rojer Button & Co.; He falls in love with Hildegarde Moncrief. "'Love' replied Benjamin absent-mindedly."page 73 -
Benjamin gets engaged to Hildegarde Moncrief
"six months later, the engagement of Miss Hildengarde": Page 73 -
Rojer Button retires
Family wealth doubled. "In the fifteen years between Benjamin Button's marrige and his father's retirement in 1895, the family's fortune was doubled." page 74 -
Benjamin joins the army
he is bored of his life at home. "At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war in 1898 his home had for him so little charm that he decided to join te army. page 75 -
Benjamin joins Harvard
He destroys Yale at football. "... and caused one entire eleven of Yale men to be carried off the field" page 78 -
Benjamin graduates from Harvard
page 79 "Upon his graduation in 1914 he went home to Baltimore with his Harvard diplome in his pocket." -
Roscoe's first child is born
page 81 "In 1920 Roscoe Button's first child was born." -
Benjamin and little Roscoe go to Kindergarten
page 82 "Roscoe took them both to kindergarten on the same day."