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I've been trying for forever to come up with a counterexample but haven't had any luck.

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Trivial Topology – Amitesh Datta Nov 16 '11 at 6:43

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The Sierpinski Two-Point Space is connected and first countable, but not Hausdorff (indeed, not even $T_1$).

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Another example: the cofinite topology on the integers is $T_1$, second countable (so first countable), connected and very non-Hausdorff for the same reason: all non-empty open sets intersect.

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