For five years, Benjamin worked the Mississippi. He learned to tie knots, read the stars, and shovel coal until his hands blistered and healed and blistered again. He saw men drown, barges sink, and once, a school of dolphins that swam alongside the Cherokee for an entire afternoon, as if escorting him somewhere. He kept a journal, writing in small, shaky letters: "Today I am forty. Tomorrow I will be thirty-nine. I am the youngest old man in Louisiana."
It was around this time that Benjamin met Daisy. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -2008- HDRi...
"Excuse me," he said. "Do I know you?"
She laughed. Then she stopped laughing. She looked at his hands—young, strong, unscarred—and then at his eyes, which were the same old eyes she had known as a child. She screamed. She ran. She came back an hour later, drunk on bourbon, and pounded on his door. For five years, Benjamin worked the Mississippi