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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Cobain
Age: 27 †
Born: 1967
Born: February 20
Died: 1994
Died: April 8
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Kurt Donald Cobain
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