We've already written about how much we admired Dolly Parton for being an early feminist. But our love has reached new heights with the news this week that she had contributed $1 million to research that ended up hitting upon a COVID vaccine reported to be 95 percent effective.
It all started with a minor car accident Parton suffered back in 2013. During the recuperation, she befriended her doctor, Naji Abumrad, a physician and professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. They shared a lot more in common than you would think given that Parton was raised in the hollows of East Tennessee and Abumrad is an immigrant from Lebanon. They both had grown up very poor in the mountains and were both curious about world events. They've remained friends ever since.
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