“Carl and I spent a wonderful 60 years together.”
Parton met Carl outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat the day she moved to Nashville at 18.
“I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me he looked at my face.”
He seemed genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I was about"
They were married on May 30 1966.
Parton and Dean kept their relationship private for decades, Parton saying in1984: “A lot of people say there is no Carl Dean, that he’s just somebody I made up to keep other people off me.”
He inspired Parton’s classic, Jolene, the singer saying she wrote the song about a flirty bank teller who took a fancy in him.
Dolly is a national treasure. That she and Carl had such a long and happy marriage in the strange and stressful music world, deserves respect. I have no idea how they built and sustained a simple, private life inside all that madness, but they did just that.
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A very rare feat indeed. People in the spotlight rarely get to keep anything of their home life private.
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Maybe that’s because they rarely want too?
Divorced, I am putting in serious effort to find someone, interested in men
You might want to give Dolly a day or two, but if I run into her, I’ll send your regards.
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Just let it go 