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This item is used in most sports, has 4 holes, comes in a variety of colors, and there is a state that shares its name. What is it
My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine and my body is pale. But I'm always ready to tell a tale.
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
So cold, damp and dark this place. To stay you would refrain, yet those who occupy this place do never complain.
A dragons tooth in a mortals hand, I kill, I maim, I divide the land.
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.