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It carries paper of the most important sort but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
Split me in half, and you get me and another me. What word am I?
What comes one time in today, three times in tomorrow and never in the future?
This is a shape and a symbol that we literally cannot live without. What is it?
What is seen in the middle of march and april?
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.