Crystal

Sports Junkie and lover of all things Virginia Tech and Dallas Cowboys. “Live the Life You Love, Love the Life You Live!” 💕

[Crystal @Coulds]

@TMZ He entered the FAFO stage…

[Dolly @DOLLDILAH]

retweeting this because we need more awareness breast cancer is so scary

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Crystal @Coulds]

@GOPPollAnalyst @Eminem You could’ve kept your big mouth shut but you didn’t.

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

The world feels a lot less sparkly all of a sudden.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

[Crystal @Coulds]

@housewivestwink @UnseriouslyB Actually she didn’t and showed her ignorance by being so nonchalant about filing for bankruptcy and thinking it’s a tool.

[Crystal @Coulds]

@notcapnamerica @teresadee71 It was horrible!!! I’d like that hour and 45 min back!

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Happy birthday, @BarackObama! 65 never looked better. Every day, you make me a better person, and I’m thankful for all the ways you show up for our family and our country. Love you. ❤️

[Crystal @Coulds]

@HousewivesHub I’m taking another flight…

[Crystal @Coulds]

@katemacey @Acyn It really does…it’s just like this entire administration, a fucking mess!

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

I swear the air gets heavier around 6pm on Sundays. You can feel the Microsoft Teams aura energy approaching.

[Crystal @Coulds]

@notcapnamerica That was peak Big Brother!

[Crystal @Coulds]

@RGIII STFU

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

I got a strike on TikTok for posting this video. Because I said history, repeat itself.. history are repeating itself in America.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Watching the sky over the capital is the perfect metaphor for a Trump presidency: burning through millions of taxpayer dollars to create a record-breaking mess while everyone else is left to deal with the hazardous air quality and the bill.

[Crystal @Coulds]

@Life_with_Lewy @Marekwalkuski They were straight trash!

[Crystal @Coulds]

@Marekwalkuski I agree 💯 %! They were trash! No choreography, imagination or artistry. You couldn’t have enjoyed them even if you wanted to becuase of all the smoke. Horrible!

[Crystal @Coulds]

@sarrah_bellus All smoke and mirrors!

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Happy #Juneteenth ✊🏾