There are few celebrities more beloved than Dolly Parton. In her decades-long career, she’s cultivated loyalty with her fans by always being true to her roots. But before she was the musician we know and love today, Dolly was just a poor girl in rural Tennessee with a song in her heart, and a dream to be a big star.

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