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[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.

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

“Jolene” - Dolly Parton

Dolly was the absolute best.
Thought she’d live forever.
She will be missed 💔

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

rest in peace Dolly Parton, forever an icon 🪽

[lexie⸆⸉ ٠࣪⭑ @safestarryeyed]

rest in peace sweet angel 💔

[We Love Cartoons @WeLove_CarToons]

Why don't they make toons like this anymore 😭 ?

[justme @EllaBraih]

@mowunmi_t Gal, I love the songgg

[Enitan Bello @enitandev]

Same day, same event.

Good afternoon, Tony 😍

[Hallelujah Challenge @HC_XFamily]

The lord has done it in finally, Tweet it into Existence 🤲🏼

[Rihanna @rihanna]

Every tongue that rises up against me shall fall!!!!!!

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Nigerian-American Victoria Oluwakotanmi crowned Miss Grand USA 2026.

[one & only Toni 💋 @toni_ala1]

just got offered THE position I was looking for ✨

[justme @EllaBraih]

Calling a woman second hand???????????

[KING OF ALL SPORTS @Emmanuel_Tips]

Even Cristiano Ronaldo self marry second hand 💀🫠😳🤯💔😭

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It's physically painful to watch society get less and less intelligent, more evil, weird, and devoid of empathy every single day.

[🥀 @amargaadu]

Very Unpopular Opinion:

Social media needs to crash for a year so that everyone can snap back to reality.

[justme @EllaBraih]

This is heartbreaking

[Anita Vams @a__vanita]

Omggggg 💔💔💔💔

Omggg
Jesuss Christttt
Jesus

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni]

“ I can't wait to start working to help my family."
Me with my first paycheck:

[gst @wearegst]

gst’s reporting on the cement ‘mafia’ has been vindicated once again.

The Dangote-BUA-Lafarge oligopoly, paired with government incompetence, is a core reason why homeownership remains out of reach for most Nigerians.

No “exaggerations”. Just facts.

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

You will be saving my mom just by reposting 😩🤲🏻

[varan🐊 2.0 🇨🇮 @luca_varan]

Elle voulait partir aussi 😭