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Father Abandones the family.
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Mother is strickened with tuberculoses and dies.
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Separated from all of his siblings and was taken in by the Allan family. He was very close to his foster mother but not with his foster father.
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His first love dies of brain cancer when he was 15 years old.
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Foster mother was stricken with turburcoloses and at the same time his foster father has numerous women.
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Foster father sends him to boarding school in 1827. He sends him off to boarding school so he can carry on with his affairs.
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Foster father did not give him any money and started gambling getting him into debt and had to break funiture to burn to keep warm.
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January 1829, his foster mother died from turburcoloses.
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Foster father called upon Poe on his deathbed to voice all of his abusive opinions about him in 1834 and was left out of his will. His combative personality most likely caused by relationship with his foster father.
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His 12 year old cousin is going to be sent to live with other relatives, he discovers that he loves her and goes on a drinking bindge. Wrote an emotional letter pleading for his aunt not to send Virginia away.
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Married his counsin she was 13 and he was 26 and he lied about he age and said she was 21.
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January 1845, The Raven was published. He only gained 14 dollars from the Raven.
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His beloved wife, Virginia, dies.
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He fell in love with a well known poetess and proposed in a cemetary. She agreed, they never got married.
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He got engaged to a women he was engaged to when he was 17.
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He was found laying semi-conscious He was not wearing his own clothes and no one knows how he got there.
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The cause of his death is unknown and shortly before he died he said "God help my poor soul".
