Had to walk home from classes in 100 degree heat and my smiski keychain looked RADIOACTIVE from the uv…anyways here are fishies i saw on my walk
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In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
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Missouri Republicans cut $4 million in funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library literacy program, which sends monthly free books to kids 5 and under.
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The apple store just took off my screen protector, stickers, phone case and deleted all my apps before telling me that they actually wont give me a new phone! My phone is so naked and alone
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Ado is Officially doing the Theme song of the Live-action "BLUE LOCK" Movie
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Happy pride to everyone, especially my lovelies in the gc scene! Im from a small town in the midwest and have never really met trans or non binary people until i started competing. You guys are the sweetest souls and deserve everything. 🥺 1/2
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