Pregnant stingray Charlotte brings in traffic, business to North Carolina town

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Charlotte the stingray in a small North Carolina aquarium has been attracting visitors since she got pregnant without a mate. Businesses in Hendersonville are delighted by the influx.

Visitors like Sylvia Jones, of Staunton, Virginia, and her niece Lilliana, of Ellenboro, North Carolina, have been flooding Main Street businesses on the weekends since the pregnancy announcement.

"Absolutely," he said,"there's been a great uptick in foot traffic. The weekends have been a lot busier for us. No complaints because this time of year can be kind of slow. So it's been nice to have the Charlotte craziness going on to help to drive business." "Brenda does great stuff locally with the kids," said Pavao."She trains them to scuba dive and be interested in marine biology. So it's amazing things that she does, and any way that we can return that to her, it's our pleasure."Mainstreet Hendersonville is seeing more visitors because of Charlotte the pregnatn Stingray.

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