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Celebrating Dolly Parton’s Lifetime of Giving Back

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library donated 40 million books to children around the world in 2025 and for more than three decades, the program has been working to increase childhood literacy. Like so much of what Dolly did in her life, the transformative library connects back to her roots in East Tennessee and her lifetime of giving back to the community. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist celebrates Dolly’s philanthropy in this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

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