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[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Everyone who writes more floridly than me is an affected windbag. Anyone who writes more tautly is a thin-lipped automaton. Only I know the exactly correct balance between stylistic exuberance and measured prose

[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.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

“I asked ChatGPT…” yeah well I asked Reading Rainbow and they said take a look, it’s in a book.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@arcanedonovan @avamaxxinista Not at Alabama, idk about their rep at other universities

[Brit @trillanymish]

@YuFoundNemo @avamaxxinista https://t.co/do7LkBiI2j

[Brit @trillanymish]

@Euby91 @avamaxxinista No, they get dropped before bid day if they don’t have a match! But many of them do open their envelope and are disappointed by the match they got. There’s a team of staff assigned to comfort the ones who are crying after.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@Kharn_300BO @CPTNPHOEBUS @Haankkyy @avamaxxinista This is Alabama. You get dropped before Bid Day if you don’t have a match.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@Euby91 @avamaxxinista No, they get dropped before bid day if they don’t have a match! But many of them do open their envelope and are disappointed by the match they got. There’s a team of staff assigned to comfort the ones who are crying after.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@Rannydemanny @SketchesbyBoze But it’s not an original work. It’s a translation of a translation.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@DiaryofaSickGrl Our USPS delivery person told my husband there’s no way I need all the shit I order (true)

[Jeff Fabre @Jeff_like_Feff]

As someone who always used to be excited for new tech, I am not interested anymore. Everything has gotten so greedy, addictive, expensive and exclusive. They don't solve problems, they create them, and then try to sell you the solution. We're in literal technology hell.

[Brit @trillanymish]

@papercutstingss I’m sure I’m not the first to say this but my working theory re: that lyric specifically is that she read and loved The Hating Game

[Brit @trillanymish]

@charttalks_ @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 still #1 with 333 points if you remove radio

[Brit @trillanymish]

@favourdave5676 @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 even removing airplay she’s still #1 with 333 points

[Brit @trillanymish]

@LeahDaOrangutan @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 And still #1 if you exclude airplay

[Brit @trillanymish]

@jazzyglobal @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 still #1 with 333 points

[Brit @trillanymish]

@JackyTr4n @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 Still #1 with 333 points

[Brit @trillanymish]

@mathrew1004 @talkofthecharts @taylorswift13 Correct, still #1 with 333 points

[lauren ✨🐞 @timelessfolklre]

if i had a nickel for every time one of my favorite artists sat on a roof and sang songs from an album that made me sob i would have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right? #thegreatdividetour

[Brit @trillanymish]

@vrlete @PopCrave Ur point being?