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mtpa06
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Chapter I
As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home.
At present, so I am told,
the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered
upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.
So young Mr.
and
Mrs.
Roger Button...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Chapter I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known. I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself. The Roger Buttons held an enviable position, both social and financial, in ante-bellum Baltimore. They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy. This was their first experience with the charming old custom of h
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Pub. on Feb. 11th 2009
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