Take with its Euclidean topology and identify with for every , retaining two distinct origins. This quotient space is locally homeomorphic to the real line but is not Hausdorff. Any open neighbourhoods of its origins have preimages containing and , so a nonzero gives a shared image point. All equivalence classes in the original metric space are finite and closed. This shows that closed equivalence classes do not suffice for a Hausdorff quotient space.
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