Dolly Parton never let anyone forget that she was born poor. So ‘dirt poor’ that her illiterate sharecropper daddy could only pay the doctor who delivered her in their one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains with a sack of cornmeal.
Ferocious hard work, an irrepressible talent, an endearing persona and a sharp business brain transformed those deeply humble roots into a vast business empire that, it was said, would have made the iconic singer-songwriter and entrepreneur into a billionaire if she didn’t give so much away to good causes.
The incomparable and wildly popular Queen of Country, fans liked to think,
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