Many Parisians who had been out of town returned to gruesome scenes. One twenty-year-old woman had been warned before she returned that a neighbor had died in the apartment above hers. But when she opened her front door, she screamed. On the floor was “a pool of dried blood, blood from a body, everything… urine, blood, everything.” The body, it turned out, had been in the apartment above hers for more than a week before it was discovered. Bodily fluids had trickled down the walls and through the slats in the paneling on the ceiling. Vases in her kitchen, she discovered to her horror, were
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