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I'm flat. You use me everyday. You need me to live. But you give me away everyday. I'm coloured and I have a founding father on me. What am I?
Late afternoons I often bathe. I'll soak in water piping hot. My essence goes through. My see through clothes. Used up am I - I've gone to pot.
My children are near and far. No matter that I know where they are. The gift I give them make their day. But if I were gone they would wander away.
I pass before the sun, but make no shadow.
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?