“Happy birthday to my unorthodox/free spirited mother @Courtney thanks for teaching me to embrace creativity&survive”

—  Frances Bean Cobain

9 July 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/486990347159891968
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American artist 1992

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