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You heart it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, I am the partner of ready. Restore me, I become the domain of beasts.
What moves without seeing and cries without eyes?
What always goes to bed with his shoes on?
I cost no money to use, or conscious effort to take part of. And as far as you can see, there is nothing to me. But without me, you are dead.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.