The moment that stunned millions: From a one-room cabin with no electricity, where Dolly Parton was born into crushing poverty, to the unbelievable journey that turned creek-water baths, feed-sack dresses, and a doctor paid in cornmeal into a legacy of global generosity — and the hidden truth she carried from those mountains that still stops people in their tracks today.

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Dolly Parton on family, fashion and rock stardom: 'I have to be who I am,  so I fought for that and I still do' | The Independent