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It s been quite a run recently for Dolly Parton. When COVID-19 closed schools, Parton the founder of Imagination Library, which has given away millions of books since 1990 took to YouTube to read stories to children (and to adults too, if we re being honest).
She published her own book,
Songteller, a memoir told through her lyrics, and released an album and holiday television special, both called
Here I Am, of a podcast,
Dolly Parton s America, that explored her broad appeal in both Red and Blue states, and of a Nashville mural that quoted her response to the marches for social justice following the killing of George Floyd: Of course Black lives matter, she told