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Edgar Allan Poe, American poet, was seventeen years old when accepted into University of Virginia. First year he managed to gamble all his scholarship money. It was also reported that Edgar owed around $2500 to local gamblers. Gambling addiction led to alcoholism, which is still debated by many Poe's followers. However, it was reported by school systems that Edgar showed up in class drunk even during the examinations. The interesting fact is that Edgar Allan Poe finished with highest grades in his class and became best student of his generation. When he was 27 years old Poe married 13 year old Virginia Eliza Clemm. Some say that their relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife. To all witnesses Poe loved his wife very dearly. He wrote several poems where he shows his love for her and the pain she had to go through when diagnosed with tuberculosis ("Annabel Lee"). Virginia did not survive this deadly disease and her monument is erected in Baltimore, Maryland.
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don't care about those other comments[=
i wish my last name was poe! hahahaa
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Kim & Rachel
And thanks for this, I need the info for an assignment (:
We work hard on deliver the truth so it makes us very sad when someone writes something crazy like you just wrote.
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We fixed this error and added few sentences about Poe's marriage. Her name was also Virginia :)
Poe was a great man. if he wasnt such a drunk...
Um as for the whole marrage thing... yea i couldnt see myself marrying somebody this year... and to die at 15 would soo suck..
but yea neways... THANKS FOR THE HELP ON MY PROJECT =D
thaaaaankyouu((:
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haha i agree 100%
ya'lll are so stupid
anyways this has helped me with my assignment:D
i'm a guy.
it really helped :D