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what is done with love is done well

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢 @smalltown_wife]

i would like to personally thank whoever’s idea it was to put little bear ears on toddler clothes

[ThePOTSPostman @ThePOTSPostman]

My doctor, a board certified neurologist with over 20 years of experience believes I need an MRI.

But Frank, from Blue Cross Blue Shield, believes otherwise.

What a joke.

[mar @itsmariannnna]

uh oh i listened to a song i used to listen to a lot on bus rides home as a teenager and now i’m thinking too hard about the inevitable passage of time and how life can seem so short while objectively also being the longest thing we will ever get to experience

[Kiwi 🥝✨ @KiwiOnTheSticks]

Does anybody find it absolutely exhausting thinking of ways we’re being poisoned by the world? Like I can’t pick the right shampoo, the right bread, the right baking soda, the right laundry detergent bc everything is damaging to the world or poisonous to humans. Exhausted man

[Jared @RealJardChatty]

I really just can’t understand how this is our reality…. AGAIN. There tens of millions of eligible candidates for presidency & the best we can find is two white men pushing 80 to run the supposed greatest country in the world??? I’m sorry, it’s pathetic

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

bridgit mendler has the most incredible resume ever seen

[Taylor-Perrin @TheTaylorPerrin]

Periods need to be 45 mins max. Dispel the underutilized egg and get tf out my face

[McErin☘️ @colleen_eileen]

You hear a lot about golden retriever boyfriends but not girlfriends. I am one. Always excited to see you, motivated by treats and pets, constantly shedding.

[Zee baby🍒 @juunozee]

Before you go after the light turns green, just wait 3 seconds because of people like this.

[eli @loveforcaptnswn]

when you’re mean to me, this is who you’re being mean to