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““Have you signed her up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library yet?” she asked.”
“At the time of her death, the Imagination Library had expanded to mail 270 million books to children in five countries.”
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“It was always an event in our home when one showed up in our mailbox.”
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“The children were representative of children in this country, meaning they were white and Black and brown and Asian.”
““It’s free, and a book will come to your house every month until your baby turns five.” I wrote it down in my phone’s notes app, next to advice about feeding and tummy time.”
“Her writing has appeared in Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Vulture, and elsewhere.”
“Dolly herself was from a hollow in East Tennessee, and understood that any attempt at equity would begin with the alphabet.”
“And I knew, somehow, she really meant it.”
“The day of her death, I’m thinking about how radical the whole enterprise of the Imagination Library really is in a country with declining literacy rates.”