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+title: Punch
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 32
+    next:
+    - title: Joke
+      link: joke
+    - title: Question
+      link: question
+    previous:
+    - title: Wallpaper
+      link: wallpaper
+    - title: Planks
+      link: planks
+...
+
+When he finally got back to work he was surprised they threw him a party.
+_**WELCOME BACK PAUL!**_  was written on a big banner across the back wall.
+Someone had ordered a confectioner's-sugar cake with frosting flowers on the
+corners.  It said the same thing as the banner.  "Welcome back, Paul" said
+Jill as he was at the punch bowl.  The cup was on the table as he ladled punch
+in with his right hand.  His left was wrapped in gauze.
+
+"Let me help you with that" said Jill.  Paul had a strange feeling this had
+happened before.  She took the ladle and their hands touched.  She picked the
+cup up in her right hand and used her left to lift the spoon.  "You know" she
+said "we were worried about you.  When Jerry heard about your hand he said
+'There goes one of our best data entry men.'" "I still can't really move my
+left hand" said Paul.  "That's alright you can take your time with the entry."
+"I'm sorry."
+
+"Sorry for what" she looked at his eyes.  He imagined her seeing fisheye
+versions of herself in them.  "I don't know" he said because it was true.
+"It's alright anyway" she said and placed the full punch cup in his right
+hand.