Friday, October 19, 2012

DID YOU KNOW?


Edgar Allan Poe, at the age of 26, married his 13 year old cousin.  Twelve years later, (2 years after publishing "The Raven") she died of TB.

Two years following her death, Poe also died (at age 40); cause of death unknown- but attributed to: alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, TB and other agents.

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