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My first though water cures no thirst my next alone has soul and when he lives upon my first he then is called my whole.
Before I grow I'm small. When I'm old I grow tall. When I die I give a mighty fall.
As a state in America I am round on both sides and high in the middle.
Physicists have built devices to move me very fast. My last seven letters can be commonly found in newspapers magazines and journals.
Things here are usually tagged with red stickers.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.