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When set loose I fly away. Never so cursed as when I go astray.
In the evening I'm long, in the morning I'm small; When seen in a ballroom, I'm nothing at all.
What number has all letters in alphabetical order when spelled out?
What do you throw out when you need it but put away when you don’t?
Take one out and scratch my head I am now black but once was red.
If it’s information you seek, come and see me. If it’s pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?