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I had a bright start but I couldn't take the pressure. I consume everything yet I don't eat anything.
In Paris but not in France the thinnest of its siblings.
What has a head and a tail, but no body or legs?
Use me if you really want to see inside someone
Of these things - I have two. One for me - and one for you. And when you ask about the price I simply smile and nod twice.
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.