Note Found in Kurt Cobain's Wallet: True Scorn or Inside-Joke Love Letter?

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We’ll probably never really know the intent of the note that was found in Kurt Cobain’s wallet the day he killed himself 20 years ago and first made public this week — the one that appears, at first read, to badly disparage his wife, Courtney Love.


"Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife," goes the scrawl (below), “even when she’s a bitch with zits and siphoning all yr money for doping and whoring…"


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The note is written on stationery from the Phoenix Hotel, a hip and gritty rocker hideout in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The last time Nirvana played in the Bay Area was New Year’s Eve 1993 at the Oakland Coliseum, less than four months before Cobain wrote a page-long, heart-wrenching suicide note in red pen, pointed a shotgun at himself and took his own life. Read more...


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