Born the fourth of twelve children in a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Dolly Rebecca Parton grew up in deep poverty — but never in spiritual poverty. Her mother sewed her a coat from rags and scraps, and Dolly wore it with pride. That coat became a song. That song became a philosophy. She began performing on local radio at age 10, and on the day she graduated high school in 1964, she boarded a bus to Nashville. She was 18 years old and she had a guitar, a dream, and a voice that could shatter glass and mend hearts in the same breath.