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Mystery visitor to Poe's grave is a no-show
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By Ben Nuckols and Joseph White Associated Press Writers / January 19, 2010
BALTIMOREIt is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the anniversary of the writer's birth. This year, no one showed.
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Did the mysterious "Poe toaster" meet his own mortal end? Did some kind of ghastly misfortune befall him? Will he be heard from nevermore?"
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