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A stratifiable space \((X,\tau)\) has property \((*)\) if each \(U\in \tau\) satisfies the following: If \(p\in \partial U\) (i.e. the boundary of \(U\)) then there exists a CP (i.e. closure-preserving) family \({\mathcal G}\) of closed subsets \(U^-\) such that (i) \((G- \{p\})^-= G\) and \(G\cap \partial U= \{p\}\), for each \(G\in{\mathcal G}\), (ii) \(p\in O\in \tau\) implies \(p\in G\subset O\), for some \(G\in{\mathcal G}\). The main and very interesting result is Theorem 3.1. If \(X\) is a stratifiable space with property \((*)\) then every closed subset of \(X\) has a CP open neighborhood base in \(X\). (Hence, \(X\) is \(M_1\)).