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Split me in half, and you get me and another me. What word am I?
I am a piece of paper that takes most people 3 or 4 years to get. What am I?
You do this into someone's ear when you want to be discreet.
You feel this sensation when you are dehydrated.
With sharp edged wit and pointed poise. It can settle disputes without making a noise.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.