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We applaud if you perform well.
I can be thin but not fat; in your body but never on your placemat. I'm always better when I'm fresh but you'll never see me in the flesh.
I am black within and red without With four corners round about.
I have a few points but we're not competing. I'll help you win when you're eating. What am I?
Everyone asks for me but yet everyone hates to face me. For someone I am agony, for others I am relief! What am I?
Brings the sky a lot closer.