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I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
It can be grown in your yard or bought at the store and is given for love when less is more?
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
What has fingers and a thumb but no hand?
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?