I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

by Lynn Melnick

THE FIRST TIME I REMEMBER hearing a Dolly Parton song start to finish was in the triage room of a hospital, as I waited to be admitted to a drug rehabilitation program in West Los Angeles. I was fourteen. It

What is the first Dolly Parton song you remember hearing?