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“Didn’t you hurt your bad hand?”
“No,” he explained. “I only threw it once to the head. The other times I punched to the body with it.”
“May I feel it?”
“If you will feel very softly.”
“But it is terribly swollen.”
“There is nothing broken in it and that sort of swelling always goes down.”
“Do you love me?”
“Yes. I love you with two moderately swollen hands and all my heart.”