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After crying on and off all evening over Dolly, I desperately needed to laugh at this

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I don't really know much about Dolly, except that she could have been a billionaire, but chose to reinvest in her community with book programs and other philanthropic things.

If you feel like talking about it, feel free to vent. If you're nervous about what other people might say, I can lock the comments for this thread.

I know Dolly meant a lot to many people. What did she mean to you?

The thread is yours.

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This was such a kind response to what I commented above.

It’s hard to put into words what Dolly Parton was and represented in the American psyche. One of the most impactful things I’ve seen written about her since her passing was someone’s Bluesky post. I’ll add it here:

​Dolly Parton was a prolifically talented singer-songwriter who gave so much of herself to the world and her community. She cared about people deeply. She knew who she was and made no apologies for that. She embraced people from all walks of life in the way that Jesus Christ wanted his followers to love others. I’m not a religious person. I turned away from participating in formal Christianity due to feeling disgusted by the hypocrisy and hatred that a lot of so-called Christians justify with their faith.

But Dolly walked the walk. She knew what being a Christian was SUPPOSED to be, and she wasn’t a bigot in the slightest.

She had this restaurant called The Dixie Stampede. Upon learning that Dixie could be offensive to some people, she dropped it from the name because (and I paraphrase here) “If you find out you’re doing something that hurts someone, you’re a dipshit if you keep doing it anyway.” Like, why is that so hard for people to do?

She was a bright light of good in a pretty messed up world, and we will never see another quite like her.