Dolly Parton Walked Into a Children's Hospital and Nobody Had Called the Press
The hospital staff found out twenty minutes before she arrived, which is how long her security team had given them — enough time to ensure that the visit would not create logistical chaos, not enough time for anyone to call a photographer or alert a media outlet or do any of the things that celebrity hospital visits usually involve.
She walked in through a side entrance. She was carrying books.
For the next three hours, Dolly Parton moved through the pediatric ward of a children's hospital in Tennessee — the specific hospital has not been named publicly, at the family's request — and visited with children and their parents in the way that a person visits when they have come to be present rather than to be seen.
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