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After her death, the bulk of her writings was destroyed by her parents’ neighbors — as a favor to the parents, who were uneasy with Cowen’s representations of sexuality and drug use in the poems. However, Leo Skir, a close friend, had 83 of her poems in his possession at the time of her death,
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in order to obtain treatment for hepatitis and psychosis. She checked herself out against doctors' orders and returned to her parents' apartment on
Bennett Avenue under the guise that she was going to go on vacation with her parents to Miami Beach. At her parents' home she committed
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Cowen was most famous for typing the final draft of "Kaddish" for Allen
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