Come As You Are: Kurt Cobain as a Child

This childhood photo of Kurt Cobain could be an album cover. It has the same spontaneity and sweetness of the naked swimming baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind. Source: History Pics

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August 11, 2014

This childhood photo of Kurt Cobain could be an album cover. It has the same spontaneity and sweetness of the naked swimming baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Source: History Pics

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