Answer:
What is taken before you can get it?
The negative hero in each story
I am the first you ever saw, what greets you every morning and what goes out in the end.
What is something you can hold without ever touching?
Very helpful if you intend to go gently down a river.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.
Easy
Animal
Difficult
Food
Funny
Kids
Logic
What am I?