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Just past the edge of summer, Alice and her daughter, Fern, arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments-a former sanatorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: the Mermaid Lady, who performs in a nightclub fish tank; the building's handyperson, moonlighting as a…
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