I feel the shame of ink to paper in writing to such an astute person of history and literature. Your gifts to our culture went so unnoticed during your lifetime, yet as so many times, we never realized what we had until it was gone, forever out of reach in this mortal realm. I feel only the comfort of your trails which set forth a structure in grammar, in story, in format and genre. Thank you so much Mr. Poe for sharing your ink to paper. With deepest regards, to a leader in the community of story.

Dwayne