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: How Dolly Parton Mailed 100 Million Books to Kids Who Had Never Owned One

How Dolly Parton Mailed 100 Million Books to Kids Who Had Never Owned One

In February 2018, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library delivered its 100 millionth book to a child. The story of how a program born in one Tennessee county grew to ship more than 1.3 million books every month starts with a father who never learned to read.
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