mary

have the time of your life• she/her• 27•

[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.

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

Me in the office coming back from lunch with the news

[lacey ⸆⸉ 🐍 @repusnaketion]

i was just the world’s saddest paul revere to pass the news about dolly to everyone i know

[･ﾟspreading positivity ☆ @aundrearunway]

Dolly’s family being able to break the news before these nasty ass news outlets.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Reba McEntire pays tribute to Dolly Parton:

“Dolly, thank you for all the wonderful things you did for us here on earth… She’s gonna have a blast in heaven singing all her favorite songs with all her family and friends who have gone on before her.”

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

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

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[HSD💋🪩 @hsdaily]

“Post-Covid, and now in this AI time, there’s something about standing next to a sweaty stranger and exchanging energy that you can’t really replace with anything. The desire is for the more tangible, the little bits of magic that just happen. […] Everything in our world now is about being productive—how do we grow this and optimize everything. Almost exclusively, my favorite things have come in moments of being incredibly unproductive.” - Harry on connecting with others for @wmag

[HSD💋🪩 @hsdaily]

Harry Styles for W Mag.

Photographed by David Sims.

[$ @jxtsummer]

sept, oct, nov & dec will be filled with good news.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Every fuckin time.

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

All smiles for my last night in the apartment that has drained me mentally & made me physically sick for the last year and a half. Grateful for the growth it gave me & the person I've become bc of the challenges I've faced but onto a new much better chapter. Won't miss u TGR

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

Turns out the apartment I've lived in for the past 2 years has been making me sick!! Bout to send these medical bills to my leasing office.

[HSD💋🪩 @hsdaily]

Harry has received 2 nominations at this year's @vmas!
• Best Dance Video - Aperture
• Best Choreography - Dance No More

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

@SEANAFTERDARK2 These!!

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

@SEANAFTERDARK2 If you like those cookies target has a mini Oreo style version so so good!!

[mary @keepdrivingHS_]

T-2 days until I get the keys to my new home 🤩 and 5 days until move in

[HSD💋🪩 @hsdaily]

Harry backstage at Wembley Stadium with his Platinum plaque for ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.’ selling over 300,000 units in the UK! (via @MusicWeek)

[Jonas Brothers Daily News 🩵 @Jonas_DailyNews]

DISNEY LEGENDS!

[lindsay @lindzxjb93]

I challenge the Jonas Brothers to stick to the theme of the Burning Up Tour All Over Again and offer the same ticket prices from 2008… All Over Again.