For most of her last year, Dolly Parton kept telling fans the same thing in her own cheerful way: she was fine, she was working, and she would be back. “I’m not ready to die yet,” she said in an October 2025 video. “I don’t think God is through with me. And I ain’t done working.” Ten months later, on August 25, 2026, she died in Nashville at 80, and the world learned for the first time that she had been fighting cancer. Since then, her sister, h…
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