"'What flavors? That would be the first question that an actually interested person would ask.'

'Okay. You’re right.'

She shifted, waiting.

'What flavors?'

'See, that’s the whole thing: papaya, milk, chocolate milk, gum—all stuff like that. Have you ever had gum popcorn?'

'No. I’ve had gum and I’ve had popcorn, but not—'

'Not as one thing.'

'Never as one thing.'"

—The First Bad Man, page 224

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