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Like many girls, Connie Moscatello of Villa Park enjoys spending hours with her dollhouse-building, decorating and just plain playing.

Unlike many of those girls, Moscatello is 60 years old.

”The kids gave it to me for my birthday,” she said, ”I was always playing with my grandkids` dollhouse, and I said I always wanted one when I was young but never got one. So my son Chuck put it together, and my sister-in-law put in the electrical.”

Moscatello wasn`t able to stop there. The dollhouse now occupies its own room in her real house, taking up an entire banquet table with the house, a two-room addition and complete landscaping. And soon she will add a bay window and a deck.

No dream is out of reach for Moscatello.

”I always wanted a baby grand, so now I have a baby grand,” she pointed out.

She has decided to replace the sports car she has in the driveway with a Ferrari, so she`s having one custom-built by her sister-in-law.

And the television in the house always has Tom Selleck on the screen.

”But you know what I like most about it?” she asked. ”It always stays clean.”