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Caleb Naysmith

Dolly Parton Called Her Dad the 'Smartest Man I've Ever Known' Even Though He Couldn't Read—So She Sent 300 Million Free Books to Kids

Dolly Parton didn’t look at her father and see a man who lacked something. She saw a brilliant man who had never been given one of the basic tools that could have opened more doors.

“He was the smartest man I have ever known but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams,” Parton wrote in a letter on the Imagination Library website.

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