True/false :If a set $A$ is connected, then so interior $A^o$ is also connected

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Is the following statement is true/false ?

If a set $A$ is connected, then so interior $A^o$ is also connected.

My attempt : I think this statement is true I have not found any contradiction I was thinking about $A = [0,1]$, or $\mathbb{R}$

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This is not true. Consider union of two closed balls in $\mathbb R^{2}$ touching each other at one point. The interior of this set is the union of the corresponding open balls. These two open balls are non-empty disjoint open sets and their union is not connected by the very definition of connectedness.