Leprechauns hoard me in kettles beneath the rainbow. Replace my first letter and I turn freezing; drop that first letter entirely and I have lived for many decades. What am I?
Gold
'Gold' with a 'c' becomes 'cold', and without the first letter it becomes 'old'.
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