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I am gold and can be black and white I'm a symbol for a nation when freedom took flight.
Marking mortal privation when firmly in place. An enduring summation inscribed in my face.
After you go through a fall, I will take over. All life will stall, or at least grow slower. What am I?
I am a fruit with seed on the outside.
I am all around yet to me you are half blind. Sunlight makes me invisible and difficult to find.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.