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It is something you make after you've weighed your options.
What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
It is a popular afterlife destination where you want to send people when you're mad at them.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.
It's in your hand though you cannot feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
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.