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Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.7	convince the newest season of even the rich
0:03.3	before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.8	A quick heads up.
0:08.9	This episode includes discussions of sexuality
0:12.0	and animal cruelty.
0:13.0	Also, there might be some less than holy language.
0:17.0	The year old
0:25.0	and 9 year old Dolly Parton is clutching her mama's hand tight
0:30.0	as they walked on the main street of Severeville, Tennessee.
0:34.0	It's the county seat of Severe County, Tennessee.
0:38.0	And sure, when you think of Dolly Parton,
0:41.0	you probably go straight to the way we know her now. Big hair, big personality, big
0:47.6	smiles and colorful clothes. But for nine-year-old Dolly Parton, life is pretty damn severe.
0:56.0	Her clothes are worn out, scratchy, and homemade.
1:00.0	They're all hand-me-downs from one of her ten siblings.
1:04.0	Her best friend is a dried corn cop with eyes burned into it by firepokers.
1:10.0	His name is Tassletop.
1:12.0	Okay, so me being best friends with hummingbirds doesn't seem so weird now, does it?
1:17.0	No, still very weird.
1:19.0	Okay.
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