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Grace Craddock and her brother and sister were baffled when on Christmas Day 2013 their father, dressed to the nines in a Santa suit, handed them all a little box each with a key inside. ‘We already had a car each so we couldn’t think what the keys were for,’ says Grace. They could hardly believe it when dad announced he’d bought them each a house. ‘It was all so emotional – we were laughing and crying, hugs all round. It was such a shock,’ says Grace. ‘After we’d recovered we spent Christmas afternoon driving round to see the houses.’