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Fans to Mark 10 Years Since Cobain Death

By GENE JOHNSON

ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) - Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide 10 years ago Monday at age 27 - deciding it was ``better to burn out than fade away,'' as he quoted Neil Young in his suicide note - was remarkable.
Beneath this bridge above the muddy banks of the Wishkah River, a troubled young Cobain would come to escape his unhappy home and the persistent gray drizzle of the Washington coast.

Among the cracking concrete supports, he would smoke pot and drink and plot his stardom, bragging to friends of his ``suicide genes'' and that he would die a young rock star.

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