What Dolly Parton taught us about how to give
Future PerfectWhat Dolly Parton taught us about how to give The late icon made being a good person look easy.by Sara HerschanderAug 26, 2026, 9:40 PM UTCShareDolly Parton proved that helping others is not only easy to do, but can be a lot of fun. At the hospital, she struck an unlikely friendship with her physician, Naji Abumrad, who, like Parton, was raised in a misty mountain village, hers in East Tennessee and his in Lebanon.“It’s just like how you meet people in your life. You just click, you just feel like you know them,” Parton once told his son, Jad Abumrad, a public radio host who interviewed Parton for a nine-part series on her life.
- ▪Future PerfectWhat Dolly Parton taught us about how to give The late icon made being a good person look easy.by Sara HerschanderAug 26, 2026, 9:40 PM UTCShareDolly Parton proved that helping others is not only easy to do, but can be a lot o
- ▪At the hospital, she struck an unlikely friendship with her physician, Naji Abumrad, who, like Parton, was raised in a misty mountain village, hers in East Tennessee and his in Lebanon.“It’s just like how you meet people in your life.
- ▪You just click, you just feel like you know them,” Parton once told his son, Jad Abumrad, a public radio host who interviewed Parton for a nine-part series on her life.
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Future PerfectWhat Dolly Parton taught us about how to give The late icon made being a good person look easy.by Sara HerschanderAug 26, 2026, 9:40 PM UTCShareDolly Parton proved that helping others is not only easy to do, but can be a lot of fun. Katherine Bomboy/NBCSara Herschander is a reporter for Vox, focusing on infrastructure, and how America builds, or fails to build, the hidden systems shaping much of everyday life, from how we get our water to the cables that keep the lights on.Dolly Parton was on her way to the studio to polish off “Blue Smoke” when the SUV she was riding in collided with a sedan in a Nashville intersection in 2013.
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