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Unlike W.C. Fields, Edgar Allan Poe Loved Philadelphia
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Given his tales of mystery and the macabre, happiness is not a word you associate with the great writer Edgar Allan Poe. But the six years he lived in Philadelphia in the mid-1800s have been described as the happiest of his short life.
Here & Now's Alex Ashlock visited one of Poe's homes in Philadelphia and has this report.
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This segment aired on July 29, 2016.