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In buckles or lace, I help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner I grow. What am I?
Blade to blade I always win My foe laid low and even. Yard by yard through thick and thin I'm busiest in season.
I am a popular afterlife location to send evil people
So cold damp and dark I am. To stay you would refrain yet those who occupy me do never complain.
I have feet on my head
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.