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+title: Punch
+genre: prose
+
+id: punch
+toc: "Punch"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 32
+    next:
+    - title: Joke
+      link: joke
+    - title: Question
+      link: question
+    prev:
+    - 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.
+
+[fisheye]: hands.html
+[frosting flowers]: big-dipper.html
+[gauze]: one-hundred-lines.html