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It was cold and dark one night in December, and the narrator was heartbroken and missing his long lost love. -
The narrator opened the door out of his room to see darkness even though he thought he heard someone knocking. -
The narrator was reading late one night when he heard a soft tap on his door. -
The narrator felt a fear hoping that a late visitor would come knocking on his door. -
The silent felt endless with the narrator standing there nervous and full of thoughts whispering "Lenore," and it echoed back. -
He went back inside but the tapping would not stop, his heart calming and so he went back 'nothing there' -
The narrator open the window wide and a unusually large raven flew in and sat on a statue of Athena.