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My life can be measured in hours. I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe.
What is neither inside the house nor outside the house but a necessity for any home?
If you spot one of these eastern warriors, they're not doing their job right.
George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda. Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
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.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.