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You learn pretty quickly when to keep your opinions to yourself.

Doug walked into a modest house in Norwood and stopped cold — a fountain parked right in front of the stairwell, framed in peel-and-stick mirrors that hadn't been updated since the '70s. He turned to the buyers, ready to apologize for the previous owners' taste.

They beat him to it. "This is so cool. We can have friends over. We have our own fountain." Sold.

Sometimes the house finds the right people for reasons you'd never guess.

What's the strangest thing you've found in a home?