Dolly Parton Just Turned 79. Here Is Everything She Has Taught Us — In Her Own Words.
2026/07/19
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Dolly Parton Just Turned 79. Here Is Everything She Has Taught Us — In Her Own Words.
She was born on January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. The doctor who delivered her was paid in oatmeal. She was the fourth of twelve children. There was no electricity.
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She turns 79 this year. She was up at three this morning. There is probably a song in progress.
In between those two facts — the oatmeal and the notebook, the mountain cabin and the three in the morning — there is a life that has been documented more thoroughly than almost any other life in American cultural history, and that still contains, in its private center, things that have never been made public and may never be.
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