Her fans have shared their experiences with Ms Winfrey in part because she has shared her experiences with them, confiding to her audience that she was raped by a cousin at nine years of age, became pregnant as a teenager, and experimented with cocaine in her 20s.

ECONOMIST: Dumbing up

Janet Valentine's daughter Kayleigh died nine years ago at the age of four months.

BBC: News Online

Why would any cautious parents allow their child to play youth tackle football at the tender age of nine, ten, or eleven years of age?

FORBES: Youth Football--Parents Gone Wild

By age 51 you should reach Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and have nine years of spending, and at age 55 reach Fort Hall, Idaho, and have 12 years.

FORBES: How Much Should I Have Saved Toward Retirement?

Garner died five years earlier, at the age of thirty-nine.

NEWYORKER: Extreme Makeover

Characteristically, he taught himself to compose music at the age of nine, and wrote a number of pieces over the years, some of which were recorded.

BBC: Obituary: Patrick Moore