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George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
Often held but never touched. Always wet but never rusts. Often bits but seldom bit. To use it well you must have wit.
What gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries?
As destructive as life, As healing as death; An institutioner of strife, Just as prone to bless. It is all that is good, Yet with an evil trend; As it was the beginning of things, It can also be the end.
It's like food but water kills it. What is it?
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?