The Last Great Unanswered Question About Dolly Parton — And Why the Answer Doesn't Matter

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The Last Great Unanswered Question About Dolly Parton — And Why the Answer Doesn't Matter

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The Last Great Unanswered Question About Dolly Parton — And Why the Answer Doesn't Matter

Sixty years of interviews. Thousands of questions. A woman who has answered more probing, personal, and occasionally impertinent questions than almost any public figure alive.

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And still, one question floats above all the others, unanswered, and likely to remain so.

Is Dolly Parton, underneath the construction — beneath the wig and the rhinestones and the wit and the warmth and the carefully maintained persona — genuinely happy?

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