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The Age of Adaline (2015)
★ 7.5 · 7,073 ratings on TMDB
Love is timeless.
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
DirectorLee Toland Krieger
The emergence reading
The Age of Adaline keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6agingAdaline's biological aging process is halted, making her effectively immortal until later reversed (biology · personal)
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