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kings and queens may cling to power and the jesters may have their call. I am the most common but I can rule them all.
My first is high my second damp my whole a tie a writer's cramp.
I reach for the sky but clutch to the ground. Sometimes I leave but I am always around.
I am gold and can be black and white I'm a symbol for a nation when freedom took flight.
I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken. What am I?
Why was the cook arrested?