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He's dead with a metal bar across his back. When a woman sees him, she is very pleased. This was all perfectly legal. What's going on?
You seek it out, when your hunger is ripe. It sits on four legs, and smokes a pipe.
I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
You can only have it once you have given it.
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?