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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Besides composing over 3,000 songs, @DollyParton's Dollywood Foundation has sent over 100 million books to children worldwide, continuing to send a book a month to over 850,000 kids around the globe; D'wood Foundation also brought jobs and tax revenues to a previously depressed
region. Dolly Parton also has worked to raise money for the American Red Cross and HIV/AIDS-related charities; Dolly is also an environmentalist, working to preserve the bald eagle through the American Eagle Foundation's sanctuary at Dollywood; in 2016
she raised $9 million to help victims of the Great Smoky Mountain wildfires; she pledged $500,000 to a hospital and cancer center to be constructed in Sevierville in the name of Robert F. Thomas, the doc who delivered her; she's a generous donor to Vanderbilt University's med
school and med center--her niece was successfully treated for leukemia at Children's Hospital; last but not least, Parton donated $1 million towards covid vaxx research at Vanderbilt and encouraged those who can afford it to make similar donations.
"I'm a very proud girl today to know I had anything at all to do with something that's going to help us through this crazy pandemic," she said. There's so much more. Dolly Parton is a hero, a global treasure, a wonder of the world, a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT! #DollyParton

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This exceptional editorial is a MUST READ for anyone with half a brain in Florida, as well as those with children, parents, grandparents and loved ones in Florida. I'll thread the entire thing here because some people may not be able to read it in its entirety and it must be read
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THE...SPACE FORCE!
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#GTFO
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