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My children are near and far. No matter that I know where they are. The gift I give them make their day. But if I were gone they would wander away.
I am a fire's best friend. When fat, my body fills with wind. When pushed to thin, through my nose I blow. Then you can watch the embers glow.
What is neither inside the house nor outside the house but a necessity for any home?
Sometimes black, sometimes white, I have veins but no blood
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?