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But after making a mockery of the
former Nirvana singer/songwriter's
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grunge rocker and various Kennedys,
Joan of Arc and Jesse James.
His point? Cobain mattered if
people believed he mattered, and the
tears they cried mattered, too.
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seem like a snide, tongue-in-cheek
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because it is. "I am the messiah," he
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