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How 'Book Queen' Dolly Parton inspired millions of children with gift of reading
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Dolly Parton, who died this week at 80, founded the Imagination Library in 1995 to honor her father’s lack of schooling. The program, started in Sevier County, Tennessee, now sends free monthly picture books to children from birth to age…
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