The day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a hospital in New Orleans. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her highly diary of Daisys lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary tells his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, the diagnosis of several diseases associated with aging and the birth and given little chance to survive, but survive and rejuvenates time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a home for â, Gees. Daisys grandmother was a resident of the home, which is where she met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, plug in the forties when the age they finally match. Some of the revelations ... |
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