What Am I Riddles

Question: What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?

Question: To be here is to be close to those dear,
I see no light but feel warmth from within,
it's lonely here but soon I'll be free.

What am I?

Question: I can be flipped and broken but I never move. I can be closed, and opened, and sometimes removed. I am sealed by hands. What am I?

Question: What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?

Question: I hide when you wake but upset you as you sleep... What am I?