The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtrack”:Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom chicka-boom.When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single step it was accompanied by Albie saying only “boom” in a voice that was weirdly sexual for a six-year-old.
-Ann Patchett
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