on Cobain moved out, O'Connor's new flame soon filled his shoes. Kurt detested the man, whom he described as a "mean, huge wife-beater" (Halperin & Wallace, 9). Whereas Don was a rather passive father, the new boyfriend gave orders and expected them to be carried out immediately. If it hadn't been for this man, Kurt couldn't have purchased his first guitar; one night Wendy threw all of his guns into the Wishkah River during a fight. Kurt paid a neighborhood boy to fish them out for him, and then he sold them to a pawn shop and purchased a Silverton electric guitar.
             During his struggle to find his identity in his teenaged years, Kurt was shuffled back and forth between relatives. When he became too much for one, he moved on to the next. At one point, he was homeless and lived under the Whishkah Bridge on North St. in Aberdeen. This experience would later inspire the song "Underneath the Bridge." On March 3rd, 1994, Love was on her way to meet Cobain who was on tour with Nirvana in Rome. She did an intervie
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