Dolly Parton didn\u2019t just leave behind songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She left a plan. A shocking, selfless plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As her body failed, she was still thinking of strangers she\u2019d never meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stella Parton\u2019s tribute peels back the curtain on the woman the world thought it knew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Behind the rhinestones was an 80-year-old superstar quietly asking doctors to use her, even at the end, to test experimental drugs that might save someone else\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf there was no hope for her,\u201d Stella wrote, Dolly still wanted to help the future. That was the deal she made with herself, and with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every Tuesday before sunrise, the sisters shared coffee over the phone, gossiping, planning, laughing as Dolly joked they got \u201cmore work done before the sun comes up than most folks do all day long.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those mornings are gone now, but Stella says her sister \u201cgot her wings this past Tuesday\u201d and will be \u201cshowing out big time in all her sparkles.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the Imagination Library\u2019s 300 million free books to the private texts telling friends she loved them \u201cwith her whole heart,\u201d Dolly\u2019s legacy is painfully simple: be kinder, give more, and leave this place better than you found it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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