First Grader Dresses as Dolly Parton, and Adopted Adult Finds Her Birth Family

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Episode Transcript

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All right, um, thank please. I want to see you at a
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first grade student in Tennessee has goneviral on TikTok after dressing as country music

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legend Dolly Parton, so Stella troglinor a blonde wig and a sparkly dress
in honor of book character day atschool and Nashville. Remember that, did
you guys have that day? Wehad to dress up? Report? Oh
we did. That's cool though,No, we didn't have that. Yeah,
you know, reading is cool.Stella's mom, Dana, posted the
video on TikTok, showing her fulllook. The video was complete with Dolly

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Parton's nine to five playing in thebackground. Mom brought Stella the My Little
Golden Book about Dolly Parton, whichis a obviously biography about the country star.
Sella put together a costume on ourown that resembled the image of Dolly
on the book cover. Sello worea glittering star pattern dress and fabric glued

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to the gold birthday fringe onto hersleeve of a white long sleeved shirt just
like Dolly. The book was completewith you know, leggings, high heeled
boots, and of course a hugeblonde was really cute. It's really cute.
You have to see what we canpost it. But her mom says
that she feels like Dolly has becomea major inspiration to many young girls,
including her daughter Sella. So it'scute. Yeah, you get your tissues

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ready. An adopted woman found hermother using a DNA side and Facebook after
decades of searching, and that allowedher to meet her grandmother she just taste
before she passed away. How amazingis that? Rachel Ruise is her name?
She always knew she was adopted.On her eighteenth birthday, she was
given a handwritten letter written by herbirth mom for her future daughter, saying

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she hoped that they would one daymeet, but it contained limited information,
not enough for a successful online search. I didn't feel like I needed to
find answers to complete myself, butI'm so happy that I found my birth
family. So years later, thenow thirty five year old turned to are
dot com and Facebook and she wasable to track down her biological mother.
When she finally saw the fifty twoyear old woman on Facebook. She knew

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instantly it was a match. OnChristmas Day, she got a reply to
her message on Facebook. They werereunited. They wore similar outfits coincidentally,
and it was just in time forRachel to meet her ninety one year old
grandmother, who then passed away notlong after, almost like she was tay
alive to meet her her granddaughter.Oh wow, that was out there.

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That's awesome. It is I'm not. I'm not. I see a little
tier, little tier from the righteye, right actively trying to not cry.
And I worked. It worked.