00:11I'm a Dolly Parton impersonator with my band Andy and Mandy and I just threw my wig in the car
00:18as like my emotional support wig to make it through to grief in my own way and I knew her
00:25address and I just figured on my way and I wanted to come and bring her some flowers.
00:30And a little sticker from our band from our tribute show just to tell her thank you for everything. She's
00:36a huge change. I'm a music teacher and the news broke while I was in class with my students yesterday
00:42and it's the first time I've ever cried in front of my students in 13 years of teaching and they
00:49started crying too and it was a powerful lesson about the impact music makes on us as humans and as
00:57musicians as well.
00:57You know I think I've always as a woman you know you don't really get to do drag although that
01:03is more of a thing now but I've admired drag queens and Dolly's like the person who got to do
01:09it actually and it'd be okay and paved the way for other women to do it and to be larger
01:14than life because being a woman's awesome in so many ways. It's hard in many ways but it's awesome in
01:18so many ways. We get to dress up and have fun.
01:27Do you have any memories of this house of being with her? Oh yeah. I was here every week and
01:33I worked in pictures and archives and I was a personal shopper and a lot of years. It's the house.
01:41It's gone through a lot of upgrades over the years. It's beautiful. Beautiful home. She loved living here.
01:58Love the music. I even went to go see her Dolly musical. That was fantastic and she provided so much
02:08for the community too.
02:09And so it's great to see someone become so famous these days just through her own kindness because nowadays so
02:23many people get famous for all the wrong reasons.
