She had thirty seconds. She used them to make a child feel like the most important person in the building.
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The Handshake Between Dolly Parton and a Seven-Year-Old Girl That the Internet Cannot Stop Talking About
The video was filmed by a parent who was standing in the meet-and-greet line at one of Dolly's public appearances. They were not filming for any particular reason — the way parents film at events, reflexively, because the child is there and the moment is happening and the phone is already in the hand.
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What the camera caught was this.
A girl of approximately seven years old reached the front of the line. She was wearing a sequined jacket that her mother had clearly put considerable effort into — a small-scale approximation of the kind of thing Dolly wears, assembled with the specific love of a parent who wanted their child to feel appropriate for the occasion.
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