When Dolly Parton isn’t accepting lifetime achievement awards for crushing it in country music and pop culture for longer than I’ve been alive:
Or raising millions of dollars for victims of the recent wildfires in Tennessee:
She’s giving out free books every month to kids all over the US:
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She’s had at least three “comebacks” since starting the program over 20 years ago.
Check out this video for more on the Imagination Library and why Dolly decided to start the organization that currently provides over a million books a month in 1,600 locations across the US, UK, and Canada:
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