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86 Year Old Woman Spends Stimulus Check On A Stuffed Animal Zoo For Her Front Yard

What did you do with your stimulus check? An 86-year-old woman named Nancy Connor has created a “zoo” right in her front yard with stuffed animals. She said:  “I went…

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What did you do with your stimulus check?

An 86-year-old woman named Nancy Connor has created a "zoo" right in her front yard with stuffed animals.

She said:  "I went through World War II which was tough but it's nothing like what's happening now everything is so sad, People are walking up and down the street looking very sad and I thought well what can I do? I'm handicapped. I can't go out there and do anything, but people love animals."

So she took every penny of her stimulus money and bought a bunch of stuffed animals off of Amazon and then built a zoo in her front yard.

"It's worth everything," said Connor. "It makes me happy to see people happy again, even if it's only for a couple of minutes."

She plans to keep her zoo up until the end of October.

If anyone has any stuffed animals they’d like to donate, she would be happy to put them in her zoo.

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