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You can always see it, but it's too far away to touch. Mountains rest on it, and at sea it surrounds you. What is it?
Sleeping during the day, I hide away. Watchful through the night, I open at dawn's light. But only for the briefest time, do I shine. And then I hide away. And sleep through the day.
Today he is there to trip you up. And he will torture you tomorrow. Yet he is also there to ease the pain, when you are lost in grief and sorrow.
To cross the water I'm the way, for water I'm above. I touch it not and, truth to say, I neither swim nor move.
He stands beside the road. In a purple cap at tattered green cloak. Those who touch him, curse him.
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?
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Animal
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Food
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Kids
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What am I?