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THREE’S COMPANY

at Julie and Scott Pelletier’s house outside Portland, Maine, is what you don’t see: a front door. There isn’t one. Which doesn’t mean you can’t figure out how to enter. You steer up a steep wooded driveway, park, and then ascend via granite slab steps to a slim patio and breezeway that connect the three gabled structures that make up the dwelling. The breezeway offers a game show option: Door Number 1, Door Number 2, or Door Number 3,

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