• dwemthy@lemmy.world
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    Yes. She started a charity called Imagination Library that sends a free book every month to children across the county. Seemed like a genuinely kind and caring person

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      She also while being from the deep south growing up in a religious household respected and appreciated LGBTQ+ folks.

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      That was at the start. Five years later it went national and six years after that it went international. The Imagination Library gives almost 25 million books to kids each year, all because Dolly’s dad couldn’t read and she saw how that affected his life.