Answer:
What word starts with 'E', ends with 'E', but only has one letter? It is not the letter 'E'.
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears.
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.
Different lights do make me strange, thus into different sizes I will change.
What can stand in place of a country but still fold away in a drawer?
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?