Maddy Rose

[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.

[beck @unrivaled]

the best to do it. there will never be another.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @be_like_legend1]

DOES ANYONE ELSE WITH ADHD AVOID OPENING A MESSAGE BECAUSE THE MOMENT YOU READ IT, IT BECOMES A RESPONSIBILITY?

And unread, it doesn't exist yet. So you just... leave it there.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

FUN FACT: Mitch McConnell has been on paid medical leave for 51 days now. That's over 7 weeks.

This is a week longer than the 6 weeks of maternity leave that women in the US are not guaranteed after giving birth.

[Tiger Lily’s Ghost @tigerlilysghost]

You guys want to be Great Depression butter churning trad wives but I want to be a 1950’s trad wife on uppers with one of those refrigerators that had the lazy susan inside.

[Matt Ramsey @OneNerdyOpinion]

Not sure what to do with myself now that my emotional support World Cup team is eliminated.

[carson. @playboixcarson]

Dylan is a little bit draining though I gotta be fair.

[Isa @isaguedezo]

Hope that blonde giant destroys them I’m so serious

[🌨️ @NotLikeRuss]

KAYDA FINALLY FOUND OUT THAT GIRL GOT KICKED FROM CASA

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Manager: “Hey, can you turn your camera on?”

Me watching the World Cup from my sofa at 2pm on a Tuesday:

[jenzi 🥷🏾⭐️💜 @blkgirlism]

the mean girl edit being about the guys instead of the girls this year lmao

[Akari 🫧 @lovesickmani]

Tierra calling Trinity a lil girl like her and kc wasn’t born the same year

[Kay @sayheykay_]

How the Core 4 was coming at the firepit tonight. MY FUCKING QUEENS #loveislandusa

[dog @Dog__Dog0]

Dogs Get Special Peepholes So They Can Watch For Mom To Come Home

[🥀 @jossyreturns]

"Do you all mind if we cancel?"
Me;

[˖ Ritz 𓂀 ݁˖ @ridhima_z]

The reason margaritas taste so good is because they are a spiritually safe drink

They have a salt circle that wards off evil

[Andyy @fw_andyyy]

McDonald's whole crew smoke weed but can't roll a fucking snack wrap oh stupid bitch

[Sarah (gif/jif) @mamaswati]

Why are you here?

"We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why."

The kids are ok.

[big beeble 50000 @notbeeble]

>pointless war in the middle east
>economy is in shambles
>tiger woods is in the news on some bullshit

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