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The faster you run, the harder it is to catch me. What am I?
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What has 4 fingers and a thumb but isn't alive?
I may seem real but it always turns out I was never there in the first place... you only see me during a certain resting stage.
I can be found in water but never wet
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.