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Edgar Allen Poe's Early Life

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The endeavors of Edgar Allen Poe's early life were quite challenging. Poe's biological parents were not involved in his early life, since his father disappeared and his mother died. Poe ended up becoming a foster child, and was with his foster family, the Allen's, for five years of his childhood. Poe decided to go to college and his foster family supported him, until he fell into debt from gambling. Poe's young life entailed a lot of stress due to poverty. In the next stage of Poe's life, he moved with his aunt Maria Clemm and cousin Virginia. Poe wrote tales, short stories, and poems; He eventually became an editor in Richmond. Virginia and Poe married and together they formed a household with Poe's aunt, Maria. There were some very flourishing
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