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My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today.
I grow for a surface, even if you cut me. I continue to grow even after death.
Without this, eating food and Steven Spielberg's career would be very different.
Do you know what you can hold without ever touching it?
Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?