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Dolly Parton: Another candle in the wind, By Osmund Agbo

It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and bade farewell to the life she had known in the Smoky Mountains of rur

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Dolly Parton: Another candle in the wind, By Osmund Agbo
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It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and bade farewell to the life she had known in the Smoky Mountains of rural Tennessee. Her destination? Nashville, the undisputed Mecca of country music. She left behind the two-bedroom cottage where […] The post Dolly Parton: Another candle in the wind, By Osmund Agbo appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .

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