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a question about connected open sets in $R^2$

Let $U,V$ be two nonempty connected open sets in $R^2$ and $U\subsetneqq V$.I want to ask if there must exist an open ball $B\subset V$ such that $B\not\subset U$ and $B\cap U$ is a nonempty connected open set.

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