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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.

[Gillette Stadium @GilletteStadium]

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[Gillette Stadium @GilletteStadium]

13 years ago Taylor Swift played her first Gillette Stadium show.

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[Harry Hill @veryharryhill]

Mommy can’t talk right now she’s liquidating her assets for the Eras Tour

[Shelby Hintze @ShelbyHintze]

Taylor Swift is for the girlies who got a 4 on the AP Lit exam and work in marketing now.

[mads @madisonmfinn]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME NEW TAYLOR ALBUM COMING IN OCTOBER

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

[Taylor Nation @taylornation13]

We’re dancin round the living room in the television light because #AllTooWellTheShortFilm just won VIDEO OF THE YEAR at the #VMAs!!!

Congrats, Taylor, on being the first artist EVER to win 3 Video Of The Year @vmas! 🧣

See you at midnight. 👀 #MeetMeAtMidnight

📸: @mtv

[mads @madisonmfinn]

I bent my engagement ring during a freak accident with a kitchen drawer last night, so if you need me - don’t. I’ll be crying until the jeweler opens tomorrow at 10 am 🫠

[Shelf @shelfcomedy]

me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles

god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

[mads @madisonmfinn]

Jaclyn Hill makes me want black hair

[mads @madisonmfinn]

Do you really work in a creative department if you don’t wish Canva had never been created so people didn’t think they were graphic designers or video editors at least once per day?

[mads @madisonmfinn]

My birthday is in 16 days and if anyone was wondering I still want a neon sign that just says “yikes”

[mads @madisonmfinn]

My therapist is a Swiftie. We struck gold, y’all 👏🏻

[mads @madisonmfinn]

Oof

[mads @madisonmfinn]

@katieaz_ Omg your dress though 😍😍

[mads @madisonmfinn]

Just remembered I used to live-tweet American Horror Story someone please give me a lobotomy

[mads @madisonmfinn]

Never thought i would be this excited to get my period lmao

*not a pregnancy scare, just decided to stop treating my hormones like shit after over 13 years of birth control

[Sarah RN, BSN. @FosterSarah13]

This is what it’s like to be friends with @_Mads13

[mads @madisonmfinn]

@lex_nicole18 Love you, Lex 💖

[mads @madisonmfinn]

@taylorswift13 did not write “the old widow goes to the stone everyday // but i don’t I just sit here and wait // grieving for the living” for you to sleep on Ivy ok??