The singer, who died last Tuesday at 80, included the touching note in the final book sent to five-year-olds as they got ready to start school.
Dolly Parton reads her book, "The Coat of Many Colors" to schoolchildren at The Library of Congress on February 27, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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Dolly Parton‘s legacy lives on and on. In addition to her enviable six-decade catalog of country and pop hits, the country icon is being remembered for her historic charitable giving through the Imagination Library. The nonprofit has distributed more than 330 million free books to children age birth to five around the world over the past 30 years, mailing a new, age-appropriate book each month to children in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia and Canada, regardless of income.
On the day Parton died last week at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer, Washington Post writer Hannah Sampson shared a picture of the final message Parton sent to kids in the last Imagination Library book they received before starting school.
