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She nabbed Kurt after wrestling with him violently on their initial meeting in Portland at a show. Thoroughly (misguided & most likely well-intentioned, but nevertheless), in the end, ultimately thoughtless, Barrie Buck told Kurt she did that because she liked him, synchophantically regurgitating what Courtney had told her to say when she talked to Kurt when Nirvana played the 40 Watt in Athens a few months after Hole did in '91.
I was walking my Keeshond one day after Kurt died just after seeing the umpteenth replay of Unplugged: Live in New York. At the time, my then-girlfriend and I lived across the way on Hill St./The Plaza in Athens and I almost attempted to subtly probe Barrie (who was walking her (I think) standard poodle (we seemed to often take our dogs for walks at the same times)) about this further, but instead sheepishly just made the usual 'hey, how are you?'-type of small talk. So, in a sense, my information comes from both empirical experience (and one of legions of Courtney Love wannabes at the time) Poppy's (Melissa's) research, who I knew personally from the bars and who wrote the Courtney Love: The Real Story biography.
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