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The Night Dolly Parton Saved Her Hometown

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November 28, 2016. Fire consumed Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Dolly Parton watched her hometown burn on the news. Fourteen neighbors dead. Families running through flames with nothing but their children. Nine hundred homes turned to ash in hours. Dolly was on tour. Thousands of miles away. Powerless. She called her foundation at 2 a.m. "What can we do? How fast can we do it?" Forty-eight hours later, she made a promise most people called impossible. 1000 dollars a month. Every family. Six months. No paperwork. No questions. Just help. Critics said she'd go broke. She raised $12 million instead. When the final payment came, families opened envelopes expecting $1,000. Inside was $5,000. Ten thousand dollars total. Nearly $9 million given away. Later, someone asked why she did it. “My people lost everything,” she said. “So I gave them something to start again.”
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