... an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society and got good grades all the while he attended. This lasted only a year because in 1827, his foster father John Allan refused to pay his debts. These debts occurred because Poe was very into drinking and gambling and had dug himself into a hole. Since Poe ... in 1846, his young wife Virginia became extremely ill. During this time Virginia was trying to pursue a singing career but it wasn't until the day she sang, and blood ran from her mouth, that she realized she really was sick. The diagnosis was Tuberculosis. Poe tried his best to comf...

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