5 iconic Dolly Parton life lessons
Impossibly charming and talented, Dolly Parton could transcend generations and political divides like almost no other cultural figure. Here are some of her most iconic quotes and slices of wisdom
Black News 
Dolly Parton was the first concert I ever attended. I distinctly remember it because she sang “My Mountains, My Home” and made a joke about the ‘twin mountains on her chest’ and I went red. The Tennessee-born Queen of Country had turned 62 years old that year, and I‘d turned ten, but that didn’t stop my mum driving us up to Wembley Arena in north-west London to see her perform.
Looking back, that experience is just a small testament to the cross-cultural appeal ofhellip;
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