And given the well-worn path from creepy to cool, I intend to tune out the naysayers, and focus my efforts on the latter instead of the former.

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"She is so full of life and spirit and she loves playing jokes on people and she likes to keep you on your toes, but musically I have never met anyone who can walk out on stage and consistently sing as in tune and proper and right as Dolly Parton does, " her sometime duet partner Kenny Rogers told CNN.

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