Dolly Parton’s marriage has outlasted nearly every era of her fame, and it started with an ordinary errand. Here’s how the country legend says she met Carl Dean in 1964.
He walked up to her at a Nashville laundromat, and the first thing she noticed was that he looked at her face instead of her body. He told a friend that day, “I’m gonna marry that girl.”
He kept the marriage, and skipped the fame. Over the next 60 years, Dean stayed out of the spotlight, missing almost every red carpet of Parton’s career.
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