I'm In Minnesota.


I'm in Minnesota.
In Alabama I always appear.
I happen twice in every moment but never in 7 years.
I'm always in the timber.
But never in the tree.
It never goes to you,
But it always comes to me!
What am I?
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Answer:
The letter M