A Very Brief Story Of John Allen Poe's Life

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Poe’s life was very interesting to most people poes lifes impacts on most of his stories and poems they way he tells them and writes them. Poe was born january 19, 1809 and died october 7,1849 in boston. Poe did not have such a good early life his father abandon his family and and his mother died a year later from consumption so Poe had to move off and taking into a home of a man named John Allen. Poe traveled a lot and had a very abusive relationship with his step father Poe had dreams but there were people and his step father who looked down on what he wanted to to

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