Answer:
What goes further the slower it goes?
It's a game played by serious people that takes place on a global scale.
A mile from end to end, yet as close to as a friend. A precious commodity, freely given. Seen on the dead and on the living. Found on the rich, poor, short and tall, but shared among children most of all.
The sun bakes them, the hand breaks them, the foot treads on them, and the mouth tastes them.
What can touch someone once and last them a life time?
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?