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I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.
Whilst I was engaged in sitting. I spied the dead carrying the living
It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you'll die.
I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played.
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?