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Yes, bones have a certain amount of flexibility to them.

The bones of an infant are the most "bendable" (pliable) and as we age they slowly replace the collagen that gives them their pliability for non-pliable minerals. As such, the bones of an elderly person are the least pliable, but usually still have some pliability.

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