Country music legend Dolly Parton has been married for 54 years, but her husband, Carl Dean, remains something of a mystery.
Dean, a retired businessman who operated an asphalt-laying company, is famous for, well, not being famous. He’s only seen Parton perform a handful of times, and went to exactly one award show with her in 1966 before she says he told her, “‘Dolly, I want you to have everything you want, and I’m happy for you, but don’t you ever ask me to go to another one of them dang things again!'”
Still, Parton says he’s one for romantic gestures like bringing her flowers and writing her poems.
Read on for a timeline of Parton and Dean’s enduring love.
1964: Dolly Parton and Carl Dean met outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 18 and he was 21.
Dean was driving by in his pickup truck when he saw Parton and “hollered” at her, she told the New York Times in 1976. She declined his request for a date but invited him over while she was babysitting her nephew the following day.
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