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Dolly Parton, country music icon, dead at 80

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Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter whose six-decade career made her one of the most recognizable figures in American music, has died, according to an announcement posted Tuesday to her official Instagram account. She was 80. No cause of death was disclosed. The family later moved to a farm on nearby Locust Ridge, the childhood home she memorialized in "My Tennessee Mountain Home." This article was constructed with the assistance of artificial intelligence and published by a member of The Washington Times' AI News Desk team.