Poe's life intersected with a number of women who died at an early age and several have been suggested as the possible models for "Annabel Lee". However, the consensus is that his wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, whom he married in 1835 when she was just thirteen and lost at the age of 24, was the true source of his inspiration.
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