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Andy Fink & Joseph Guse



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Crown Publishing, Copyright 2007

The Lifestyles of Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix & Janis Joplin
Forever 27

On the cloudy and cool 49°F Tuesday afternoon of April 5th, 1994 in Seattle, Washington, Kurt Cobain was nowhere to be found. Four days earlier, April 1st to be exact, Cobain hopped the fence of rehabilitation center in Marina Del Rey, California, (near Los Angeles), arrived in Seattle, WA early the next morning of April 2nd and was taken to his Seattle home by a hired driver where he had a conversation with Michael "Cali" DeWitt, who lived at Cobain's house. Over the next several days, Cobain was spotted in various locations around Seattle, but most of his friends and family were unaware of his whereabouts. Then on April 4th Kurt Cobain’s wife Courtney Love, pretending to be Kurt Cobain’s mother, filed a missing person’s report.
It was on April 5th that Kurt Cobain walked up the stairs of his Lake Washington home into Cali’s bedroom (Kurt’s daughter Francis Bean Cobain’s nanny) and placed one of his favorite albums (R.E.M’s Automatic for the People) on repeat as he laid down on the bed. He grabbed a pack of smokes, a pen and one of his steno notebooks and began to write a letter. This was no ordinary letter. This letter symbolized the last time Kurt Cobain would: write anything in his life, apologize for being sensitive, be a dad, be a son, be a brother, be a husband, be a friend and it would be the last time Kurt would use his piercing blue eyes to see the world he adored too much for his heart to withstand. It was a letter of his appreciation for and understanding of how we as human beings behave on a foundation of...