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Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967,
in Hoquaim, Seattle; his family moved to Aberdeen
when he was six months old. Cobain's childhood was
a happy one by many accounts - he remembered being
joyful, his parents were infatuated with him, and
his aunts & uncles were captivated by his artistic
talent - not to mention his unique personality in
general. His parents divorced when he was 8 years
old; some say that was what turned his life around
for the worse, but others insist things sloped
downward beforehand. Kurt claims in 1974 he got a
lump of coal for Christmas and was devastated.
Family members also say that his mother incessantly
yelled at him for trivial things which left Kurt
sobbing like a baby, and in fact Don - despite what
Kurt's mother, Wendy, has continually claimed -
may have been more civil toward Kurt than her.
Additionally, Wendy stated Kurt's infamous poem on
his room wall - "I hate mom, I hate dad.
Dad hates mom, mom hates dad.." - was evidence
of the impact the divorce had on him. In actuality,
he wrote this months before his parents split.
Kurt would also later tell his close friend Dylan
Carlson that living with Wendy's new boyfriend, a
"mean, huge wife-beater", was more psychologically
damaging than the divorce beforehand. (WKKC?, p. 8-9)
Either way, he was subsequently shuffled from home to
home, parent to parent, and relative to relative.
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