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Hi Mary here is my Dolly story

When I was about 4 or 5 i came home one day from a play date or play group sining apple jack obviously being so young my rendition didn't include all the lyrics and my parents not being Dolly fans themselves had no idea what I was on about and thought I just wanted to eat apples so every time i would belt out my 5 year old version of apple jack mum would cut me up some apple. A few years later we were on holiday staying at a caravan park that had really bad TV reception and the only channel we could get was playing Dolly's concert from london in the early 80's it had the bit at the start where Dolly was being interviewed and being her funny self my dad was laughing and decided he would continue to watch the concert then Dolly pulled out the banjo and played apple jack and my parents looked at each other and started to laugh and realised thats what I must have been on about years earlier. I was pretty much hooked from that moment on. The first album I ever purchased was Dolly Parton 16 biggest hits of course apple jack was on it then my mum gave me a tape called
'a real country Dolly' and she was singing a duet with Porter Wagoner I had no idea who he was I just knew it wasn't Kenny Rogers so I looked at the cover and it had Before I Met You (seitz-lewis-radar) and I didn't understand because I new Dolly was singing the song but her name wasn't there so I asked my dad and he said that's the names of the people who wrote the music and the lyrics and I said but Dolly's name is on nearly all the other songs and he said well she must have written them I couldn't believe that someone could write the words and the music and sing all these songs then I started to look at my other Dolly records and sure enough her name was after nearly every song thats when I really began to admire her as a gifted and talented person. Even today the more I read about her the more I see her and the more I hear from her makes me admire and respect her as a human being. There is that old saying "you look but you don't see" I believe true Dolly fans look past all the make up, the wigs and the glittering outfits and see Dolly the person we feel her heart in her songs and thats why she touches so many people in such a positive way and that is why in my opinion she is and will always be one of the most beloved performers of all time.

hmm as an example.....i moved about a week and a half ago....the movers ripped me off about 3oo bucks....the first day i was in the house (which i found out later hadn't been lived in for 4 years!) the hallway flooded from a shower pipe...used all the lined i could to stop the water going into the carpeted bedrooms...plumber came out and fixed the problem however he started a fire in the wall and left! i come back inside the house is full of smoke and i also noticed the fire alarms weren't going off >< so get the plumber back so he can put the fire out....then i noticed there was no phone or internet connection and it would take 2 weeks for someone to come out because of all the floods that have occurred over here.....the next day after paying propper cleaners to do the old house....i was told they have to go out again because they didn't do it properly so then i had to pay for the electricity to be reconnected...other minor stuff going on but anyway.....all through this i would just listen to Dolly (which i agree she definately does have a song for every emotion) and i just chilled out through it all thinking "wow...all this happening is trippy and i'm sure i'm supposed to go insane because of it but nope i've got Dolly to listen to lol plus there are worse things going on in the world then in my silly little one" so basically anything thing happening in my life good bad or indifferent...as long as i have Dolly i'm fine.....and it's also wierd because it's not like i'm obssessed with her or anything...i don't have bunches of stuff of hers..however i feel my feelings towards her her are even stronger than those who collect stuff and are obsessed with her....i don't know why.......i do know though that i grew up listening to her and i adopted quite alot of her ways of thinking and beliefs...mainly her whole 'just be yourself and don't judge others' thing....don't judge a book by it's cover...even then once you've read it why even judge it lol....so yep that's an excample