As a child, Dolly Parton often felt like the odd one out in her family. She would question if she truly belonged and wondered if she was even related to her sisters. In her eyes, they possessed beauty while she saw herself as "pale, skinny," with what she called "corn teeth" and an excess of freckles.
Growing up in East Tennessee, Dolly's feelings of being different led her to create a world of imagination as a means of combatting loneliness.
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