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Cobain described his early childhood in Aberdeen as happy. As author Charles R. Cross noted in his Cobain biography, "Heavier Than Heaven," he would ride his bike around the small yard and pound on a set of Mickey Mouse drums his parents bought him. In one event that entered family lore, Cobain's father, Don, trapped a rat in a garbage can in the garage. Don tried to spear it with a broomstick, but the rodent clambered up the handle, over Don's shoulder to the ground and across Kurt's toes to safety
-- prompting endless laughter from the 5-year-old. But his parents' divorce scarred him deeply. At one point, he scrawled "I hate Mom, I hate Dad" on his bedroom wall, Cross wrote. "It's a place where he had very fond memories, but it's the house where his parents got divorced," Cross said in an interview. "He couldn't wait to get away, but it's a place that helped shape who he became." The home was last lived in by a family friend four years ago. According to The Agency, the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based luxury real estate firm marketing the property, it features the dining room table and hutch from when Cobain lived there. Cobain's mattress is tucked away in a musty upstairs crawl space. Cobain lived in about 20 houses in his life, Cross said, and this isn't the first one offered for sale based on its connection to rock history. In 2002, an Oregon couple bought a home in nearby Montesano for $42,500. When they learned that Cobain had lived there with his father from 11 to 15, they sold it for $210,000.
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