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Gender: Female
Status: Single
Age: 101
Sign: Scorpio

City: St. Petersburg FL, OCNJ, Lancaster & Philadelphia
State: Pennsylvania
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/3/2006
January 19, 2009 - Monday 
In honor of Edgar A. Poe's 200th Birthday:
A song that local schoolchildren in Philadelphia would sing to Virginia and Edgar, to everyone's delight:

"Mister Poe was a man of great credit and of fame,
And I lov'd him I own, but I lov'd not his name;
When he ask'd me to wed, in a pet I said, no, I'll never marry you & be called Mistress Poe.
How ridiculous it would sound in the village to hear the children say one to another as we pass -- That's Mistress Poe, Goody Poe, Cousin Poe, Gaffer Poe! No, I  never will be married and be call'd Mistress Poe.

In a passion he flew and he cruelly said,
In my hear do I wish you may die an old maid;
You may wish what you please, still my answer is no! For I'll never marry you and be call'd Mrs. Poe.
How ridiculous it would sound in a Ball-room, to hear the company whisper one to another -- That's Mistress Poe, Goody Poe, Cousin Poe, Gaffer Poe!
No, I will never will be married an be call'd Mistress Poe.

So I said, and I thought, about twelve years ago,
And refus'd the kind offers of sweet Mr. Poe;
Now I think I was wrong and greatly to blame,
To refuse a good man on account of his name.
Now I'd give the world to hear the people say as I pass them -- That's Mistress Poe, Goody Poe, Cousin Poe, Gaffer Poe!
Oh! I wish that I had married the gallant Mr. Poe."

- "Mrs. Poe," unknown author. Popular 19th century song.

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