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Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.
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