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The land was white the seed was black. It'll take a good scholar to riddle me that.
What can touch someone once and last them a lifetime?
What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
Dry though I may be, I am still a sea.
What stays in one corner but travels around the world?
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?