"We are trying to have a normal life, to live like we usually do, " said Rama Handi as an Aloe Vero manicurist lacquered her nails red.

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Now Jules was living in Montreal while Pascal was sleeping by himself in this ridiculously red room, his clothes hanging from nails that he and his brother had hammered into the walls.

NEWYORKER: Ghosts