Once again I am stumped by something which is probably trivial.  

What I wish to do is accumulate text into a paragraph "as I go".  My simple 
approach is to allocate a box, and then unbox and add the text.  But this 
doesn't work as I intend:

\newbox\textbox
\def\addbox#1{
        \setbox\textbox\vbox{
                \unvbox\textbox#1
        }
}

\addbox{Hello}
\addbox{there!}


What I get is each appended bit of text in a separate line.  I've tried to 
"\unskip" and "\unkern" etc. after the \unvbox, but whatever I do I get a list 
of lines rather than a paragraph as I would like.  So far I haven't found any 
answers in my searching, so if one of you would be kind enough to point me in 
the right direction I would be appreciative.

I know I can use an auxiliary file to do this, but that seems overkill.

Thank you!

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