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The single quotes prevent the expansion of the shell variable - use double quotes instead. You could also write the script incl. the expanded variable to a...

I was more talking of your own efforts... anyhow, try
awk '/^ *$/ {CNT = 0; print; next} ++CNT < 3 {T[CNT] = $0; next} CNT == 3 {print T[1]; print T[2]} 1' file