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No Show Won't Deter Poe Fans From Annual Ritual
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Fans of American author Edgar Allan Poe are heading to Baltimore again this year to try for a glimpse of the shadowy figure known only as the "Poe toaster," even though the mystery visitor was a no-show last year.

Cynthia Pelayo traveled from Chicago to stand overnight in the shivering cold at the gates of a cemetery, waiting for someone who never showed up. This year, she's willing to do it again.

An anonymous caller had left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the Jan. 19 anniversary of the writer's birth every year for some six decades, but the person failed to appear in 2010.

But that's not the end of the story. If anything, the no-show has deepened the mystery, attracting more curiosity to the ritual.

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