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I think because of the rain and ice and In that season there is rain and drop of ice
The second one because before kisses it’s describing what kind of kiss it was which apparently it’s sloppy
Henry Roth wrote the book and it is about a young boy growing up in the Jewish immigrant ghetto of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century bebe :)
Mortality means death an example is in religion some believe that after death there is an after life