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Cut the wrong wire and it goes boom
A famous home without color and with wings.
Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means "to leave", it's not heard to see why
A precious gift, yet it has no end, no beginning, and nothing in the middle.
A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.