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Edgar Allan Poe's Kidnapping
Evidence states that Poe was a victim of a kidnapping,which led to his death. One of many assumptions of how Poe died was that he had "congestion of the brain" when he had died. Poe also suffered from heart disease. By suffering from heart disease and lung cancer from his alcoholic ways, it made his health decrease.
Poe had a drinking problem, so he could have died from alcoholism. No one really knows how Poe died and it is kind of suspicious that he was found like that in Baltimore,Maryland,if he was not drinking or overdosing on medicine somewhere. It has been said that poor nutrition and a weakened condition brought on by other illnesses could have entitled his intense episodes of drinking. The repercussion was fever,hallucination, and


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